Tackle high prices charged by drug companies

Hospital waiting list figures have continued to grow at an unacceptable rate. Many of our elderly are waiting five to six years for orthopaedic surgery and cataract operations. I have 20 such cases on file.

What is needed is a modern service, but what exists is an archaic, consultant-led service which is incapable of meeting needs.

Junior hospital doctors and nurses are under terrible strain, overworked and underpaid. Yet consultants can earn big money, not only from public patients, but from private work.