I WISH to publicly offer my thanks, and great appreciation, to the doctors and all ward staff, at the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit in Christchurch Hospital who cared for my mother, Gladys Clark, during the last days of her 103-year-long life.

These people treated my mother with the utmost respect and tenderness. They treated her like a princess. They should all consider themselves a credit to the NHS.

DEREK CLARK, Broughton Avenue, Bournemouth