AFTER reading Mike Joslin’s latest missive (July 2), there is probably only one thing that I can agree with and that is what someone else said.

That “every television commercial is another little legend about how consuming some product or service will make life better”.

Oh, and like Mr Joslin, I hate ‘labels’ too.

As for ‘investing’ in the NHS, billions of pounds has been ‘invested’ in our dearly beloved NHS for decades. It is still a basket case.

Yes, staff at the actual coalface of the NHS should be paid more. But that won’t solve the basic problem that has beset this monolith for so long. That basic problem has always been the same, far too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Bureaucracy is the overriding mantra. And wasting cash by the bucketload.

No, the “sick won’t go away”. Nor, will the current methodology that continues to organise the NHS. Well, not in the near future anyway.

Only a complete reform of the way the NHS is run at the moment, will allow it to survive in such in a way that it will perform in a way that its originators hoped for. The obsession with ‘targets’ has to go too.

Lastly, if I may, the British banks may well have ‘£20trillion in assets’ squirrelled away. However, let’s not forget, that big business (including one or two banks) has at least several trillion pounds stashed away in tax havens, Profits that have never had a penny of tax levied upon them. Now, if we could repatriate that huge pile of cash and tax it, just think what could be done with it? Of course, that scenario is very unlikely to happen. But there again, there is no harm in whistling in the wind.

Andrew Martin

Abbotsbury Road

Weymouth