MP being kicked upstairs into the House of Lords, outgoing Seven Dials councillor Lynette Gwyn-Jones is joining the board of one of our local NHS trusts, making more than £5,000 a year for turning up to a few meetings.

As a city councillor (current salary £8,000 per year), she has taken little interest in her ward and, as leader of the council (now paying £28,000 year), was so weak and lasted only a few months in the job before being replaced by Ken Bodfish.

May we take it, then, that NHS management boards have now become taxpayer-funded repositories for our "worst-value" politicians, with all the consequences for quality of care provision this policy would seem to imply?

-Ian Hills, Blackman Street, Brighton