The electioneering process continues on apace - the NHS taking top billing. No surprise about that.

But of course, none of the politicians have yet to mention that the NHS has become bureaucratic monster. Ridiculously expensive, wasteful and inefficient. That there are still more administrators than nurses or beds.

Apparently, the cost of NHS management is an eye watering twelve billion plus pounds.

Double the amount it spends on A&E services. Surely, that collosal sum is indefensible? Especially, when elderly patients are left dying on trolleys in hospital corridors?

As I have noted before, the NHS was a good idea in theory.

However, in practice, it was fatally flawed. Besides, why should the state provide health care for nothing? Even if it is funded by taxpayers. Food is not free. Nor is water. So why should health care be free for everyone.

After all, water and food is more essential than health care.

The NHS is now beyond reasonable repair. And the only way to repair it, is to shut it down. Lock stock and barrel. Just start again. And of course, the EU can be blamed for some of its problems. Like GP's not having to provide 24 hour cover for their patients and so on. But I guess, all the politicians will trumpet the same old thing - none of them will dare to suggest that the NHS needs radical surgery. None of them will tell the voters the truth on the thorny issue of the NHS. Votes are always more important. And perhaps it is time to stop thinking about the NHS as a favourite auntie, hoping she will live forever as she always was?

Andrew Martin

Abbotsbury Road

Weymouth