YOU report that the citizens of Malvern and district cannot have their required new hospital until they have found a financial partner.

This is an artificial situation designed to drive our community into further debt.

If our nation has the resources for building a new hospital, all that is needed is for our elected government to create the required money out of nothing, as private banks do every working day, and then hand the hospital committee a cheque book.

Yes, a Private Financial Initiative (PFI) partner will claim to do this for you at a very hefty price. So far our experience with this system is ever mounting debt and low satisfaction with the end product.

E W CARR, The Drive, Powick.