SIR - It really angers me that our new hospital is short of beds and unable to cope with all the patients who need a hospital bed urgently.

It beggars belief that there's Ronkwood, Powick, Worcester Royal Infirmary and Kidderminster lying idle when they could be refurbished and re-opened up again to allow the new Worcestershire hospital to discharge its patients and free its beds. Instead, they want to build marvellous buildings to impress us and do not care about our sick or needy.

M BURCHER,

Worcester.