Sir – How to vote at the coming General Election? Until now the choice, in Oxford as elsewhere, has been uninspiring or worse.

The big parties are tired, untrustworthy and increasingly not fit for purpose. They operate an 18th-century political system in the 21st-century; they energetically reform everyone else but resolutely refuse to reform themselves. They lie.

David Cameron pledged (in a speech at the Royal College of Pathologists on November 2, 2009) that the Tories would not undertake any more NHS reorganisation before the last election and promptly unleashed Andrew Lansley to do just that, creating expensive chaos. The National Health Action party is an important development. For the first time in years, if not decades, here is a party worth voting for.

Here in Oxford we have a top-quality candidate (local GP, Dr Helen Salisbury) to defend a service that is vitally important to us all. It is in deep trouble. Not because of shortage of money but because of an excess of political incompetence.

Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians know how to waste money (our money) and meddle on an awesome scale, but know nothing and care less about delivering a caring service.

The old big party political system is dying and increasingly irrelevant.

The NHA party is newborn and growing vigorously. All voters in Oxford West and Abingdon have a fantastic opportunity to save the NHS and begin re-energising national politics.

Chris Redman

Emeritus Professor of Obstetric Medicine, founder and former director of Oxford’s Silver Star Service for maternity care, Oxford