Letters

Your writers confuse change in the way things are organised or described with change in the things themselves.

So I am told that 'primary care is changing out of all recognition' ('Speed bumps', news focus, page 13, 29 June), when managers are engaged in another round of musical chairs.

The current political fashion for primary care trusts may give lots of extra work to busy people, but it is not a change in primary care. This is not just sloppy writing, it is sloppy thinking, and encourages the suspicion that managers are employed in games while the rest of us work at caring for patients. I do not subscribe to that view, but you do not make it easy to convince myself that the main priority is taking care of the sick. Is it?

Peter H Fitton Lepton Surgery Huddersfield