I WAS recently discharged from the Royal Bournemouth hospital after my fifth in-patient stay within a year.

Having read all the horror stories about other hospitals, I want to stress how lucky we are to have Royal Bournemouth Hospital as our local hospital.

I was mainly in wards 16, 17 and 18. Without exception my treatment was excellent. I am 86.

Every single member of staff in all these wards were fully efficient, and, more to the point, extremely kind and helpful.

Nothing was too much trouble, night or day.

I think the staff from the ‘horror hospitals’ should all, in turn, be sent to RBH for training on how to treat patients.

JOAN C COLE, Sutton Road, Charminster Hill, Bournemouth