THE leaders debate programme highlighted the importance of saving and improving our NHS.

David Cameron claimed that we have more doctors and more nurses, but of course we have – we also have hundreds of thousands more residents.

There are far too many highly paid pen-pushers in the NHS and not enough hands-on nursing and doctor staff.

When I went to America, I ended up on a stretcher unable to breath, thinking I was dying. All the medical staff were interested in was whether I had insurance. Fortunately I did, and I was wheeled past others less fortunate than me.

I'm afraid it's a case if you can pay you live if you can't you may not in the US. It may be the same here if we don't rectify this monumental problem now.

John Cumberland, Rushyford.