LAST month I was admitted to Royal Bournemouth Hospital to have four stents fitted to heart arteries.

I have nothing but praise for Dr O’Kane, the junior doctor who assisted him, and the rest of the team including the after care nurses.

It was a revelation to hear everything that was going on with involving very delicate micro surgery.

Little did I know that only last Sunday morning, I had to call 111 then 101 for an ambulance at 8am on something entirely unrelated to my heart treatment. I now know first hand just how virulent the virus currently doing the rounds is.

RBH were unwilling to take any chances, even on a Sunday.

I’ve just finished listening to Andrew Marr interviewing Health Minister of Health, Jeremy Hunt (Sunday BBC TV).

I am now convinced that it is he who is the problem, not the BMA or junior doctors. Everyone I talked to in hospital listed excessive working hours as the problem, not pay.

Mr Hunt however talked incessantly about the great 11 per cent pay increase.

That’s a fat lot of use when you’re exhausted after a 14-hour day. That’s when mistakes are made.

Those working in the NHS want more staff to share the workload.

Address that first.

WARWICK RUST,

Bure Close, Christchurch

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