I would like to express my gratitude to the NHS staff at the Lewes Victoria Hospital for looking after me during a significant operation in early January.

I pray that the NHS will be treated as sacrosanct by the new government following the general election this May.

Our foreign aid budget exceeded £11 billion in 2014. Surely this can be reduced to say £8 billion.

Then this saving could boost the NHS. Let’s have a new hospital in Shoreham.

Address supplied Brighton