SO THE Government us back on track to continue their ‘improvements’ to our NHS, and intend to use competition to improve the efficiency of the service.

This is all right, so long as we have a level playing field.

Will private hospitals have a emergency department or a fleet of ambulances ready and waiting? If not they will cherry-pick the lucrative operations, while the NHS bears the cost of all emergencies.

I only hope these new brooms do not upset the staff who, in York certainly, are devoted, as many people have found at a time of difficulty with their health.

Dennis Barton, Woodthorpe, York.

... and ‘old’ Bloom

AS AN NHS employee, I suggest that – in the unfortunate event that Godfrey Bloom or any member of his family need emergency treatment for an injury or condition – he should find a privately run A&E department, rather than adding to what he considers “the problem” of daring to employ public-sector Workers (Letters, June 1).

Or maybe the sauce for his gander is richer and better subsidised than that of us poor proletarian geese.

Signing off with disdain...

David Gregory, Beckfield Lane, York.