IT WAS with some concern that I read in last week’s Standard, the comments made by oral surgeon Greg Gerrard over the the campaign to keep Cirencester’s minor injuries unit open throughout the night. 

If his thoughts are a sample of others in the medical profession, then it is no wonder the NHS is in crisis.

Like Joe Harris has publicised, Cirencester is expanding at a fast rate, it is not just the case of keeping the MIU open at night, we need a full time open hospital as not everyone has the means of getting to Gloucester, Cheltenham or Swindon for hospital appointments, then once there sitting and waiting for hours because schedules are over stretched.

Mr Gerrard in his article speaks of money needing to be well spent.

If foreign nationals, who come to this country and have medical treatment on the NHS, were to pay instead of doing a runner when their treatment were finished, then there would be more money in the kitty.

In recent days we have been told how many billions of pounds we will be in debt from borrowing by the year 2020, yet we can still afford millions on nuclear weaponry while cutting down on the armed forces personnel. 

Who stands the cost of every bomb and missile fired in Syria and Iraq, where is the money coming from to refurbish Buckingham Palace?

Things just do not add up, priorities are thrown out of the window.

When Theresa May became Prime Minister, she said everyone would benefit under her government, she has not been in office 12 months and look at it.

BRIAN ROBBINS
Cirencester