ALMOST weekly I read of new problems with the National Health Service but now the reports are coming on a daily basis, the latest being that patients are having to wait sometimes 12 hours in A&E to be assessed.

Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health, says that this is not acceptable but he says it is complicated, however he has a plan! But he does not explain what that plan is.

Mr Hunt has now been in his job since 2012 and is a product of Oxford University. I think it truly amazing that a person so well educated has to take five years to develop a plan.

We are told that some of the major issues in the NHS are that we do not have enough GPs, and many GPs are leaving due to retirement.

We hear staff in A&E are completely disillusioned and overworked, and we do not have enough consultants or nurses or radiographers.

We also hear of the need for new, efficient ways of working, that the population is growing older and has more complex medical needs, and that care homes and the mental health sector are underfunded.

None of these issues is new and all need to be urgently investigated.

Today, all the Government is doing is treading water. It makes glib, one line statements that an extra billion of new money has been found or that it is complicated but it never reports on what progress has been made in solving the major issues.

We desperately need the Government to review problems and make decisions but it is completely incapable.

For example, airport expansion round London has been discussed for 40 years without conclusion.

This is the standard of our political class. I put it to you that no matter which political party were in power nothing will change.

Brian Tyldesley, Middleham