THIS Tory government seems hell bent on breaking up our NHS.

Take the bed-blocking crisis, where patients ready to go home, cannot do so, because they can't get the care they need at home.They can't get the care because this government has cut the care budget by more than £3billion. It's a vicious circle. A Tory ploy.

They are putting doctors, nurses and all NHS staff under ever-increasing pressure. Junior doctors have already taken strike action, because the government will not listen. Is it any wonder many doctors and nurses are leaving the NHS?

Hospitals are having to send increasing numbers of patients for private treatment, at great expense to the NHS. Money they haven't got, due to cuts.

GPs too are under pressure, with 68% saying their workloads are unmanageable. Many are retiring early. Few are being replaced. How long before we are paying to see a GP?

Do we really have to watch our NHS be run down, then sold off cheaply by a Tory government, to Tory-backing private companies, more interested in making money, than caring for the sick?

Unless Labour gets it's act together and concentrates on issues such as this, we may soon see a two tier health service, where those who can afford to pay, can queue-jump over those who cannot.

Brian Derbyshire

Ribchester Grove

Bolton