Some members of the public have not taken Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s call for new ideas to reform the health service as seriously as they hoped.

Ideas suggested for NHS reform included provision of beer to hospitals and putting Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta in charge.

The Department of Health told the BBC that officials were reviewing posts, and removing or hiding content that was “clearly inappropriate or irrelevant”.

Ministers earlier launched an online “national conversation” to inform a new 10-year plan to reform health services.

In a social media post, Mr Streeting tried to laugh off some of the more disrespectful suggestions.

writing on x, he quipped That the recommendation for a Wetherspoon pub in each hospital was “sadly vetoed by the Chancellor”.

He also rejected a demand to fire a cannon to raise funds for the service.

The Department of Health has promised the listening exercise will help “shape” its new NHS strategy, to be published in spring next year.

But some suggestions are less likely to be taken seriously than others.

thoughts that seem to disappear consulting website This included introducing Lager Madry into all hospitals to “help patient morale” and appointing a dog to replace Streeting as Health Secretary.

However, suggestions to replace ambulance sirens with healthy eating advice and to install Thunderbird 2-style detachable patient compartments in ambulances still appear to be online.

By late afternoon, the most popular suggestions by users on the site included limits on sending paper letters and making it easier for GP surgeries to access digital records from hospitals.

Other high-ranking ideas include making it easier for non-British citizens to pay for treatment and introducing penalties for missing appointments, a suggestion also made and then dropped By former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The Department of Health has not confirmed which posts it is removing, but a spokesperson said that “clearly inappropriate or irrelevant” content is being removed or hidden by the moderation team.

Ideas suggested by ministers at the launch of the consultation include making full medical records, test results and doctors’ letters available in the NHS app.

Currently the NHS app is limited because patients’ records are kept locally by the patient’s GP and any hospitals they visit – and not all parts of the healthcare service interact with the app.

This is not the first time that ministers have attempted to connect directly with the public on state affairs.

The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition asked for suggestions from the public on scrapping the laws, and ran a Treasury-led public consultation on money-saving ideas.

However, the most famous example of the listening exercise is the 2016 poll in which the public voted to name a new polar research ship “Boaty McBoatface”.

The name, suggested by former BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand, achieved viral fame and became the runaway winner in a competition run by the Natural Environment Research Council.

A blow to online democracy, the ship was later Named after broadcaster Sir David AttenboroughHowever one of its remotely operated sub-marine vehicles was named “Boaty” in recognition of the vote.