GEORGE Cowley complains (You Say, September 6), that my letter about the real cost for public finance initiatives for hospitals and primary care "hubs" was "pretty dense and opaque".
He's possibly right, and I shall try to do better, but it isn't easy to be entertaining about costs and figures.
This is a new and tortuous subject for many of us to grapple with but that is no reason to leave the general public largely in ignorance about how scarce national health resources could be misdirected to paying off large loans to private companies for 25-30 years.
Waiting times for urgent surgery are too long and people are selling their homes to have private treatment here or abroad. The NHS has demonstrably not been safe in New Labour's hands.
WENDY HANDS,
Upton-upon-Severn.
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