Dear Editor
The NHS, in all it’s forms, has been invaluable for people. This is understood: we would all be in deep trouble without it.
It is hard to believe organisations see the provision of health services as a means to make huge profits. One of the biggest dangers for the NHS is countries like the USA.
The importance of the people to own and control the NHS has been a tremendous lesson for all. It is now unthinkable to most that it should be otherwise.
This example of how to benefit society must now be extended to what is called the ‘care sector’. It, too, should be a publicly-owned extension of the NHS, not owned by private cmpanies or a business dependent on grants from local councils.
Every elderly person is exactly that, and must be treated with respect, not as an afterthought on some idea of ‘can we afford the cost?’ We can and must afford it!
The now elderly people need care and attention, love and respect for all they have done for us.
A. Delahoy
Silverknowes Gardens
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