YP Letters: An accident waiting to happen if Huddersfield left with no A&E

OUTRAGEOUS. How can a town like Huddersfield – one of the largest in the UK – not have an A&E department (The Yorkshire Post, January 16)?

Huddersfield has a first class A&E yet we are to be sent miles away to Halifax, Wakefield or Barnsley. Also, as a university town, we have many students, not to mention a growing elderly population.

What about parents who are confronted with sudden fear about a child’s health?

As for local MPs Barry Sheerman and Jason McCartney, now is the time to be really on your mettle and stop these ludicrous plans. The people of Huddersfield will be with you all the way!

From: Dr Glyn Powell, Bakersfield Drive, Kellington, Goole.

NHS junior doctors are to be congratulated for striking against ridiculous proposals that adversely change their contracts of employment.

The changes, if implemented, would result in doctors working longer hours for less reward.

More importantly, because of the longer hours, the wellbeing of patients would be put at serious risk.

Junior doctors should, therefore, be supported for resisting such damaging changes, even if their action escalates from one-day stoppages to all-out strike action.

The Government’s real agenda is to destroy the NHS and replace it with a fee-paying health service. Doctors must never 
trust the likes of Jeremy Hunt as such Ministers are totally duplicitous.

In conclusion, the NHS is in desperate need of finance, with health service trust after trust predicting massive losses. Government, therefore, should fully address this problem by diverting billions of pounds earmarked for replacing Trident missiles to the NHS. This, however, will not occur as Tory governments do not believe in spending to benefit people.

From: Paul Muller, Sandal, Wakefield.

I CONCUR with Bill Carmichael’s article “Time for doctors to negotiate, not strike” (The Yorkshire Post, January 15).

I was on the so called junior doctors picket line asking them why they were on strike.

Doctors and nurses must take control of their profession again. They must negotiate a better contract with NHS England and the Government; not through the BMA. Going on strike never solved any modern problem.