No good old days for health provision

2:36pm Thu Jul 29, 2010

I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation of the service and support I received from Newark Hospital.

I recently fell in the garden while watering some plants. I reached forward for the watering can and, forgetting that I am now an old woman, landed on the concrete path.

A quick trip to Newark Hospital was magical.

In half-an-hour we were on our way home having been X-rayed and treated and my painful arm was safely tucked into a comfortable sling.

On the drive home I reflected on the wonderful treatment I had received from the kind staff. No amount of money could have improved it.

I was young when Aneurin Bevan established the National Health Service and remember the pre-war days before it existed.

Most people did not have a doctor and older people then had mouths full of broken teeth.

Soon afterwards, I remember from childhood, all older people seemed to have white, gleaming false teeth.

They were not the good old days and I hope that the new government is not going to spoil things.

— F. ASHWORTH, Farndon (Full address supplied).