NHS saved my life

His name was Alexandra Paes and his first surgery was a council house on Kent Avenue.

You went in the back door sat in the kitchen and when called you went into the front room Dr Paes and left by the front door.

He had built on a piece of land near Victoria Park a home plus a surgery.

He named it after his daughter Niwas, now it is Rosehill Surgery plus clinic.

Why all this history? Well, I went to have a blood sample taken and urine sample and while I was there they checked my heart rate and found it was going fast.

They hooked me up to a machine and took two printouts which will be sent to Rotherham Hospital along with blood etc.

For over 60 years, I’ve been a patient at this doctor’s practice and seen it grow from more or less nothing to a vital lifesaver.

If the NHS is privatised by Cameron or Farage, and they have both hinted it, it will be back in the kitchen waiting for me.

Richard Billups, Rawmarsh