RECENTLY I needed hospital treatment while staying with my parents in Worcester.

Having seen several articles in the Evening News regarding the poor state of affairs at the hospital - repeated red alerts, patients staying in ambulances and so on - I felt the need to contact you about my experience.

On arriving in A&E, I was seen by a nurse and two doctors one of whom was a specialist within 30 minutes of my attendance. I was continually reviewed by doctors and nurses until I was taken to theatre.

I was operated on there by a consultant who'd been called out specially at 4am. When I was sufficiently awake, I was taken to a ward where I had my own room.

Anyone would think I'd had private health care! Not true.

I was just lucky enough to come across some of the most dedicated and hard-working people in the country.

To those in A&E, theatre and recovery, and the Beech head and neck ward, I'd like to convey my heartfelt thanks they all do a fabulous job and don't get enough credit for it.

As a staff nurse in a busy Liverpool AMU, I'm well aware of the pressure staff are put under by management and - indirectly - the Government.

Although all hospitals have their problems, stresses and waiting times to battle against, perhaps sometimes we should try and focus on the good things the people working in them do for us - the lives they save, the hours they work, the abuse they take to be there for the general public, 24 hours a day, no matter what - and give them some moral support instead of continually knocking them down and criticising their efforts.

Victoria Fox,

Shoulton Lane,

Hallow.