LIKE many other patients of Dr B J Williams we are alarmed at the threat from the Primary Care Trust to close Marshfield Road Surgery.

Taxpayers fund handsome salaries for managers of the PCT whose role should be solving problems, not behaving like bullies in the playground which leads to confrontation.

It seems unlikely now that the managers responsible can be objective, therefore it might help to give them other duties and bring in staff from outside the area who could negotiate reasonably with Dr Williams.

ROBERT and SUE HUGHES

Lower Seagry

Chippenham