Setting up an independent board of governers is the way forward for the NHS. They could assess treatments that work (and are affordable) and provide a stable framework/structure to deliver care.
The amount of reorganisations while I have been working in the NHS could have paid for all your new cancer therapies 10 times over. Stop meddling and let people with knowledge of the subject sort it out.
Rather than let PCT's select which services the public can receive we should have a national debate on what will and will not be funded.

ian , Durham,

I believe that if the NHS system is put into the hands of an Independent body, then there is a possibility that the body could become political, i.e. I presume that the body will have a Budget, thus if they do not have enough money for Cancer Treatment, then the Body can say, Sorry Mrs Smith, you cannot have your operation until next year because we do not have any money. Then this will get on the pages of the papers, then it will become political. Maybe it is time to look at the Australian model using Medicare.

Sean Ennis, Manchester, UK

The NHS is NOT being run by politicians, it's being destroyed by politicians.

Jennifer Hynes, Plymouth, England

Politicians have made a mess of the NHS, especially Hewitt who have "balanced her books" and has over 500 surplus as she claims, forgetting this surplus is the wages for all the health professional sacked + 135 million cut from junior doctor training! Now, come August, thousands of junior doctor will also be sacked for Hewitt to "save" more money! Those doctors cost 2.5 BILLION to get through medical school! That's how clever Mrs Hewitt is, saving 500 million and wasting 2.5 billion, she needs some elimentary maths classes IMO

Staff moral can not be lower and the establishment is neerly dead. Save the NHS for Britain, give the running of the NHS to the professionals, the doctors who know what the NHS is all about, curing people, they know how to make it better.

Nigel Hawkes, you are a top reporter, I am becoming a fan :-)

Sam, London, UK

It does not surprise me that new medical graduates will see the medical profession as a job rather than a profession: after all, they are certainly not treated as professionals given the farcical recruitment practices to which they have been subjected this year. If you want professionals, treat them as professionals; if you want self-interested, unprofessional, money-seeking clock-watchers, adopt the same attitude as John from Dundee and that's exactly what you will get. Apart from the 'money-seeking' bit, that is - I do not believe anyone goes into medicine for the money (or ever has), they simply couldn't hack it without really wanting to do it... particularly when faced with either nursing colleagues or patients with John's attitude).

A doctor, Wales,

Well, John, let's just see how you're going to feel on August 1st when all the Junior Doctors' post change and not all the posts are filled because some have gone abroad to at least have some certainty about their future and you need emergency medical care.
Why don't you log on to the Remedy Website (www.RemedyUK.org) and read jsut a few of the psoting by those most effected by the ongoing issues around MTAS & MMC.
How would like to have no idea where you will be working or even if you will have a job? My son has been lucky enough to have a job offer - for the Oxford deanery - which includes - Oxford, Milton Keynes, Ascot, Slough with no indication at present of exactly which hospital he might be working in! With even better luck he may yet get his preferred deanery offer from the North West so he can stay where his house, friends, life at present is, although this region is huge and he will have not idea until AFTER he has accepted a job offer which hospital he'll be working in.

Joanna, Ascot,

John from Dundee, you are quite wrong in a few counts
1. Anybody that is not a consultant in the NHS is a junior doctor, and they form the majority of the doctors in the hospital. Their pay is a standard scale throughout the country (except those in London), and there is no cash cow to be milk. They have no other employer except the state. They have no other income except from the government. They have no voice either

2. The march is about the TRAINING of these junior doctors. They want to be trained properly so that they can provide the best care to patients when they are consultant. They are actually calling for lengthening rather than shortening of training. The Government wants to have consultants that take shorter time to train and have less experience so that it can fulfill its "consultant led " promise - a con if you ask me.

3. I think nurses doing "straight forward" doctors job is good, but how do you define that? Taking blood - most don't even want to.

UF, Birmingham,

While doctors who see patients as no more than the way of achieving the next mortgage payment or the next new car are in charge and while these same people are allowed to block nurses from doing perfectly straightforward "doctors" jobs we will never have an efficient health service. The problem has been from day one that the doctors, private contractors to the NHS, simply see it as their cash cow, they see it as their business. What other business would leave the local trades union to run it as Brian Edwards seems to be suggesting? Doctors have so corrupted the NHS with their me, me, me attitudes that they have forgotten it was supposed to be a service for the public and not a business run for their benefit. But service demands humility and you see precious little of that shining out from the angry faces of doctors on all these marches they delight in having, ...... about their working conditions. Get rid of the BMA's all pervasive conservative influence and the problem will disappear.

John, Dundee, UK

How about Professional Administrators, kept under a tight leash, working with the Dotors.

Desmond Taylor, Houston, USA texas