Letter: Where are you Amanda?

Amanda Pritchard during a visit to University College Hospital London, following the announcement of her appointment as the new chief executive of the NHS in England.

Her name is, I discover, a bishop’s daughter Amanda Pritchard, the CEO of the NHS and responsible for the £150 billion budget which through the conduit of HM Government is garnered from the UK taxpayers.

Vast numbers of her key employees are on, or plan to, strike over pay.

Amanda remains hidden and relies upon her paymasters to step in and fight her battles. Her employees appear to ignore her.

I guess for the pittance she is paid, £250,000, we shouldn’t expect her to be involved in these disruptive and devastating events.

The junior doctors and nurses are members of now militant unions run by very much left leaning Corbynistic officers. Who suffers? We do, their ‘customers’ or now known as, patient patients.

What is Amanda’s role? Why is it that the government is turned to by her employees for answers?

The junior doctors and nurses are much appreciated by their customers (us) and although their reputations will be tarnished by their actions, there is an amount of sympathy as to the management or lack of it they are subjected to by the NHS.

Please Amanda, make your presence felt and look as though you care about your staff and customers.

One note I would add for government action. Those entering university with the aim of becoming doctors, and who stick to that degree, not deviating after a year or two to study ‘Harry Styles’ or some other ‘Micky Mouse’ degree, should not have to repay their fees.

Their value to society should not be welcomed by a fine upon their qualification.

They repay the public by their skills in supervising our medical needs either as GP’s or hospital doctors and consultants.

Goodness I feel better for that!

Jeremy Biggin

Upperthorpe