I fear that autocorrect has tampered with Polly Toynbee’s keyboard – writing of the NHS, in the print edition version of her article, that “the Tories have tended to damage it” (Tories, hear this: the public still believes in the NHS on its 75th birthday – and we know you don’t, 4 July). Shouldn’t that read “the Tories have intended to damage it”? Wishing our NHS many happy returns once the deliberate and debilitating infection is removed under the elected surgery of a Toryectomy.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire
• You report that “Most frontline medics believe ministers are seeking to ‘destroy the NHS’” (Most doctors think ministers want to destroy NHS, BMA boss says, 4 July). In other news, I hear that Queen Anne is feeling quite peaky.
Rev Richard Bradshaw
Retired NHS chaplain
• Your editorial on the NHS workforce plan (30 June) does not mention that the expansion in medical school and university places will not start until September 2025. This continues this government’s cynical approach to the future of our NHS, after the five-year delay in producing the workforce plan and its deliberate running down of the service over the last 13 years.
Richard Thorne
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
• Today’s NHS patients will see no change in waiting times for some years, and discharges will continue to be delayed by the enduring problems of the social care sector. Rishi Sunak should call Boris Johnson to ask for a copy of the “oven ready” plan to deal with social care that he announced on his way into No 10 four years ago.
Les Bright
Exeter
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