Let’s keep the pressure off our NHS

t was encouraging to read the warm praise expressed for the ambulance crews and DGH personnel following your correspondent’s severe fall while out running (letters, May 15 click here to read.

Would it be churlish to suggest that we go one stage further during what he himself described as a time of crisis?

At the risk of moralising, perhaps we could all do everything possible at present not to place ourselves in situations where accidents could happen, thereby incurring further pressure on the beleaguered NHS.

Such a sacrifice would add meaning to the applause we unleash from our doorways and balconies every Thursday evening.

It would also act as a counterweight to the obnoxious behaviour of the scumbag woman convicted last week of spitting at those trying to help her.

On a truly positive note, I for one am indebted to the Herald for its weekly inclusion of quizzes.

I bypass most of them but have become hooked on codewords, of which there are four each week.

Rarely in recent years have I come across a mental exercise so absorbing.

I hereby make a plea for them to be continued in the same number even after the crisis is over.