Editor

I walked to the local cottage hospital with my mother when I was six,the year the NHS was born. I had a bent little toe, and they strapped it with very wide elastoplast tape.

Tuesday, 9 February, my birthday, I was in another NHS unit, the Bangor vaccination centre, and it was a very moving experience. The facilities were very impressive, but what choked me was the large number of attentive volunteers, doubtless responding to the NHS ethos, that this government is so determined to undermine.

The chair of the right-wing Institute of Economic Affairs Neil Record has donated £32,000 to Matt Hancock, Health Secretary, when that same organisation published the following report, written by the IEA’s head of political economy, Dr Kristian Niemietz: “There is no rational basis for the adulation the NHS is currently receiving, and no reason to be ‘grateful’ for the fact that we have it.

“It should go without saying that if the UK did not have the NHS it would not have no healthcare system. It would have another healthcare system.”

Perfidious Albion indeed!

Roger Louvet Porthmadog

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