Facts on NHS
SO MR SMITH pursues his personal and political vendetta against me, preferring personalities to facts. I see on the same page that a correspondent calls him naive.
The government is seeking to destroy the NHS he says. Since 2010 the NHS budget has increased every year, a fact.
The government is seeking to privatise the NHS he says. There is no evidence whatsoever for this assertion.
The government proposal to increase the pay of doctors by 13.5 per cent is unfair he says. How much more is needed then to make it fair?
The strike has led to the cancellation or delay of thousands of operations and treatments needed by patients, which alas is creating a crisis.
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