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You report (7 November) that Barts Health trust\u2019s takeover of a fully equipped, state-of-the-art private hospital is \u201cthought to be the first time the NHS has inherited ready-to-use health facilities in this way\u201d. However, in 2002, for \u00a337.5m, the Scottish executive bought a large private hospital in Clydebank, built in 1994 at a cost of \u00a3180m by a US healthcare firm, for the NHS. Now the Golden Jubilee University National hospital, it delivers 57,500 procedures a year. Not a bad bargain, I\u2019d say. Polly Toynbee provides an excellent background to recent events in one of Britain\u2019s foremost national treasures (If you care about the BBC, stand up and defend it: this could be the beginning of the end, 10 November). The\u00a0coincidence of the huge success of The Celebrity Traitors happening almost simultaneously with the real-life situation being played out in the BBC boardroom is nothing short of tragic. David Edwards Hulme (Letters, 7 November) wants us to spare a thought for the residents of Epstein Road in Thamesmead, London, but they can always think of Brian Epstein, who gave us the Beatles. At the risk of sounding \u201csmug\u201d (Letters, 9 November), my first letter to the Guardian was published over 47 years ago, on 2\u00a0August 1978 (Letters, 10 November). Most Guardian letter writers \u2013\u00a0cool or smug \u2013 go unpublished. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You report (7 November) that Barts Health trust\u2019s takeover of a fully equipped, state-of-the-art private hospital is \u201cthought to be the first time the NHS has inherited ready-to-use health facilities in this way\u201d. However, in 2002, for \u00a337.5m, the Scottish executive bought a large private hospital in Clydebank, built in 1994 at a cost of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[578,4644,1229,1877,4359,18992],"class_list":{"0":"post-33081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-hospital","9":"tag-led","10":"tag-nhs","11":"tag-private","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-takeovers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Adam Rennie<\/strong>
Edinburgh<\/em><\/p>\n
Gerry Devine<\/strong>
Ickenham, London<\/em><\/p>\n
Sue Leyland<\/strong>
Hunmanby, North Yorkshire<\/em><\/p>\n
Harvey Sanders <\/strong>
London<\/em><\/p>\n
Carol Walker<\/strong>
Sheffield <\/em><\/p>\n