SIR – Michael Wickens wrote that more than more than 600 NHS managers earn more than the PM (Worcester News, June 19).

How does the NHS justify that? And how does it justify employing more managers than NHS has beds?

Why is Councillor [Andy] Roberts deeply involved in this review of medical servcies necessitated by government cuts?

Why aren’t Worcestershire’s politicians sitting in the hot seat?

Why aren’t our MPs telling us which groups of people are going to be denied the medical care they want?

Why aren’t our MPs telling us which people are going to be left to suffer increasingly long-term painful or stressful medical conditions that were formerly treated?

Why are our MPs presiding over an NHS that, according to the media, allows patients to die of thirst, starvation, the rationing of drug therapies, and the refusal of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to approve new drugs for us, doesn’t treat pensioners the same as others and refuses to place patients on waiting lists for elective surgery?

How much public money is spent by the NHS on wages for those working on wards and clinical treatments, and how much on paper shufflers and bean counters?

Would those paper shufflers and bean counters be employed if an asset management company was brought in to run Worcestershire’s health authority, and if an asset management company wouldn’t employ them why do we?

Why is our health care being slashed to save the Government money, when the same savings could be achieved by ending foreign aid?

Why are we spending £85 billion of our money on unemployment benefits, when government is pouring millions of people into our country and giving them our jobs and our social housing?

Why are we giving Europe billions of our money?

And why is the Government giving hundreds of billions to the City, even if they have to print the money to create it, when government can’t even afford to care for our own?

N TAYLOR
Worcester