POURING billions more into the bottomless NHS pit will never cure the patient.

The new school academys have shown how things can be improved. Remove all the expensive non-medical executive committees.

Appoint a CEO whose salary depends on results and give each hospital a budget worked out on a points system.

Then we will have the most efficient NHS in the world.

At present nobody carries the can and, if the amount of non-collected prescriptions in my local chemist is anything to go by, 25 per cent of the present NHS budget is wasted.

CLLR PHILIP PEARCE-SMITH, MBE, Holbury