The following is a copy of a letter sent to Withybush Hospital and which we are happy to reproduce.

Sir,

It is now four months since I was admitted to your hospital via ambulance and A&E. I was there for only two nights to be treated for breathing difficulties (I have emphysema). Since then I have been very well, in fact the best I have been for some years!

I had intended to write to you earlier, but like a lot of good intentions it fell by the wayside. However the bad publicity that the NHS gets in the media (press and TV) has prompted me to at long last put on paper my thoughts.

From the moment my wife phoned for an ambulance, at 8 am, until I left hospital two-and-a-half days later, the treatment I received and the treatment I saw in Ward 11 for the patients there was of the highest possible standards.

The ambulance arrived within 10 minutes of my wife's call and the operator told her that if she was following me to hospital, to make sure the house was secure before she left - surely above and beyond the 'call of duty'. My treatment from the paramedics and in A&E was both calming and hugely professional.

I was transferred to the observation ward where I was seen by Dr. Bowen and the consultant and my treatment was prescribed and then up to Ward 11.

It was in this ward that I witnessed the fantastic treatment some of the elderly patients received, whether from the SRN's or medical helpers. Nothing was too much troubles for them, from crushing up tablets to feeding them. I was amazed, especially in view of what was said in the media about the treatment of elderly people in the hospitals in the UK.

Mr. R. R. Morgan,

Church View,

Summerhill.