FULL of praise for the National Health Service.

Recently I returned home after eleven days in a Somerset hospital.

We were staying in self-catering accommodation in Wookey when I tripped in the bedroom and broke my hip. First of all I was taken to Glastonbury hospital for X-rays etc then transferred to Yeovil District hospital.

I had my operation and stayed there a week. Then I was transferred back to Alderney hospital, Poole for three days.

I am a diabetic so it was a bit more difficult.

The treatment I received was first class and the staff so friendly and kind to me and my family.

MARGARET HOOPER, Hawthorn Drive, Poole