GP surgeries have barely improved

Dear Editor,

Kevin McNamara, chief executive of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is taking hyperbole to a new level if he really believes he has cause to be “really proud of what our team in primary care have achieved for the people of Swindon in the past few years”.

In three years since taking over the day to day management of two GP surgeries, the practices have moved from being ‘inadequate’ to ‘requiring improvement’, that hardly suggests any great improvement.

As a patient, I can state with certainty that the telephone appointments system is a joke and hasn’t improved since McNamara’s band took over.

As for the Integrated Care Board, this is simply the CCG in a different guise - albeit better paid.

Des Morgan,

Caraway Drive

Swindon

SN2 2RR

A lengthy retort to a previous letter

Dear Editor,

In reply to Mrs J .Lawrence and her remarks regarding my comments to the letters pages.

As an old school gentleman. I am afraid I must tell her I appreciate her remarks regarding my prose to this column.

She accuses me of watching propaganda television - terrestrial TV, Ma'am, like millions of television viewers on our island, on a nightly basis.

But my favourite subject is mathematics. I comment on the proven facts that the media, like the Advertiser, provides us with on a daily basis.

She is entitled to her opinion and I respect that.

Perhaps she should read my previous comments on Gary Lineker and the draconian BBC TV licence imposed on the over seventy five year olds.

I would not watch Mr Lineker if he was playing keep up in my back garden - the perfect example of the Champagne Socialist, and like her, I am paying for it.

Regarding my moaning? Is her contribution not the same regarding my free speech, a contradictory attitude.

While I accept her comments as free speech, the bastion of a democratic country. I must end now, and wish her all the best and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, as a proud Northern Britt, named Scotland.

Bill Williams,

Merlin Way,

Covingham,

Swindon.