THERE must be many senior citizens in Bolton affronted by the implications of your comments column “.....more people to care for”, (agreed), then “... more elderly patients taking up beds” ? At least this is an improvement on the insulting term of “bed blocking” and even so, a similiar reference to certain other groups would have engendered an outcry.

Let us not forget that the indigenous elderly have endured the privations of a war – sometimes two, have paid their dues and taxes all their working lives and in their hour of need should not be singled out as a National Health “problem”. I rest my case.

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