How I agree with the comments made by your reader about people not cancelling hospital appointments (Scanner Department).

I luckily had a cancellation appointment which I was extremely grateful for. Many thanks to all in the Rheumatology Department. While there I noticed in the clinical department there were 262 missed appointments in August alone, costing thousands of pounds and also wasting the doctors precious time.

So please will people cancel, its only a phone call, that is something we can all do to help the NHS. More beds for our new hospital is vital but out of our hands.

Cancelling appointments we can do something about, so please lets help the NHS when we can.

SHIRLEY PICKETT

Ermin Street

Stratton St Margaret