LETTER: What direction is our health service heading?
It is shameful these supposedly young children who we are being asked to take in from France, some with beards, are running away to get a better life and leaving soldiers from other countries to fight for their country.
Surely they could be trained to help rebuild their area?
We are now having these young men living in large houses in Devon, also families being given large houses some with five bedrooms and also having benefits and £27,000 bursaries for ursing courses.
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Hide AdThis would be quite understandable if we looked after our own people correctly but we do not.
Lily Allen and other stars think we do not do enough for the refugees.
I am sure nobody would mind taking young children who have been left to fend for themselves.
My mother took a boy from London in the Second World War and he was eight.
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I have recently known of elderly people, having sustained a fall, waiting for over an hour for an ambulance.
An 80-year-old lady being in four different care homes in a week, also someone waiting ten hours for a bed at Pinderfields hospital.
I help at a memory loss group where a taxi for some one with disabilities costs £17 for a three-mile journey.
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This week I will be wearing my poppy for my father.
He was killed in Libya in 1942 and he is buried in the country, in Benghazi.
I have just read about our new Bronte midwife-led maternity unit where 25 per cent of mums have to be transferred to Pinderfields to give birth.
I worked In the 1960s at Crossley maternity unit, which was also midwife-led.
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Hide AdExactly the same thing happened there because you could not have epidurals for pain relief or caesareans when needed.
Is this supposed to save money as the Clinical Commissioners would say?
Wendy Senior, Kennedy Close, Dewsbury