TONY Blair is going to do things for nurses - recruiting more and giving them better pay - and has pledged to put more money into the NHS than the Tories and to build more hospitals. That's good over the next few years, but what about nurses now working in bad conditions for poor pay?

A proper pay rise for them now would make me think better of him.

H MOOREHEAD, Belvedere Road, Burnley.

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