I WRITE in response to reading Nora Parminter's column, "Views on the News", in the Courier (March 14) about possible closure to Crediton Hospital.

Jeremy Hunt (Secretary of State for Health) and also local MP, Mel Stride, really don't care about the NHS one bit ; if it doesn't make money then it's no good to this "bully boy" Government, which has destroyed the NHS with the waste of £3 billion on changing how it's run, with more managers and not enough front-line workers, such as nurses, porters, house keepers and people who have patients' needs at heart.

The problem is, people voted the Tory and Lib Dems into power.

The Tories said they wouldn't touch the NHS.

I fully back the people of Crediton in trying to keep the hospital.

Paul Stone

Unison

Labour Link Officer

Royal Devon and

Exeter Hospital

By email

Footnote: Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, has revealed that almost 4,000 NHS staff, who took redundancy since the Coalition came to power, have been re-employed in the Health Service.