Green councillor Rachel Fryer's letter regarding the NHS Fit for the Future proposals actually says little other than getting basic facts wrong, lacking understanding of key issues and indulging in scaremongering (Letters, May 31).

Coun Fryer is wrong regarding A&E provision. Worthing Hospital, the Princess Royal Hospital and the Royal Sussex County Hospital will all retain A&E services which will benefit Brighton and Hove residents in that the pressure will be kept off the Royal Sussex.

If Coun Fryer was so concerned about travelling time for local residents, then why didn't she support the Labour and Conservative groups joint amendment which addressed this point? Coun Fryer fails to understand that the aim of the proposals is to improve specialist services which cannot be achieved without radical change. Yes, this will mean moving some services away from existing buildings but if this means that people will benefit from such changes, surely that is to be welcomed?

Coun Fryer also indulges in the Green's usual scaremongering when she refers to these changes leading to "creeping privatisation". She is obviously unaware that one of the best assets of the NHS - GPs - are actually self-employed and are therefore "private" contractors who "sell" their services to the NHS and have done so since the NHS was introduced 60 years ago. Surely this illustrates that it is the principle of free NHS care which is important rather than who provides such care?

All political parties in the council had more than 18 months to consider the Fit for the Future proposals and the opportunity to comment. The only political party that failed to offer any constructive comments at the council meeting at which Fit for the Future was debated were the Greens, except to suggest that the council rejected all the proposals it contained. It would have been completely irresponsible for any political party to have taken such an approach and a betrayal of the people of this city not to have made any recommendations given that the proposals affected those who we serve.

Empty slogans and scaremongering are no replacement for constructive engagement and, on this evidence, the Greens have failed those voters who placed their trust in them.