HAVING read so many bad things about the RUH at Bath, I feel a lot of it is very unfair. I have been having treatment at the RUH, all right some days I've had to wait, but the staff and treatment is first class, and I can find no fault with the hospital.

I speak as I find and I say a big thank you to the nursing staff and doctors who do a grand job and I feel it is so unfair for them not to have received at least one star for the effort everyone at the RUH have put in.

So carry on the good work. I for one think you are A1.

J M ALDRIDGE,

Winsley.

THE recently published study of star ratings for hospitals reveals that Bath's Royal United Hospital has received none.

Apart from this dubious and somewhat childish rating of hospitals by means of stars (a procedure I left behind in junior school) where is there any evidence of the life-saving skills of the hospitals concerned?

My wife was recently admitted to the RUH and surgeons and staff worked throughout the night in a successful effort to save her life.

Their skill and devotion, coupled with my wife's fighting spirit, saved her life. As a result the attendance of our family at intensive care proved to be unnecessary, despite family members from overseas.

For our family, the surgeons and staff of the Royal United Hospital enjoy a five-star rating, despite any misguided government publicity to the contrary.

J BOOTH

Westbury.