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Dear Editor,
I was disappointed to see another letter attacking doctors in your paper – July 2022. A letter just a few months ago discussed GPs ‘not seeing patients’.
It feels as though at best there is a lack of understanding of the challenges faced by practice staff and at worst a vendetta against GPs.
GPs are expected to see more patients, with more complex medical conditions (which are deteriorating due to secondary care waiting times), in a shorter time.
Receptionists are abused to a shameful extent and as a health care worker, we have had to call the police twice in recent months due to the voracity of the abuse leveled at my colleagues.
Blame politicians for GP issues not those desperately trying to keep practices open in the face of sickness, early retirement and real-term funding cuts.
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Dear Editor,
Thank you for the July Issue.
I couldn’t agree more with the letter deploring the felling of the two beautiful and healthy trees on Brookside. 
There used to be the most wonderful prospect from the Melton Road bridge looking down the brook towards Broad Street. In every season there was a changing vista of branches, leaves and reflections in the water which often made old Syston look like some exotic continental city: Paris, Amsterdam or Bruges… 
This is now spoiled and changed. One half of the spectacle is missing. As trees grow slowly it won’t be put right in our time. 
I’m attaching a photo of Brookside taken at the beginning of July: looking lovely – but lopsided – this summer since the tree felling.
In earlier years, the foliage met in a magnificent canopy over the water.
And as your other correspondent adroitly notes: what is being done about the supposedly tree-damaged pavement? It seems that those trees died for nothing at all.
What a shame and a pity.
Sincerely yours,
J. Craven 

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