Hospital food

The food at Southlands and Zachary Merton is good, at Worthing it is bad.

For the first 15 years of my life I was on wartime rations, the last, for meat, ending in 1954.

If the representatives of the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust thought of making a surprise visit to catch them out at Worthing Hospital, it never works like that. Even in the Army or in a factory, they get tipped off. The food in Worthing is worse than Belsen and if you want milk on your cornflakes you have to lasso the cow to get it.

I have just spent the last week in the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. We even had a boiled egg for breakfast, with two slices of toast. The meals were first class, the care very good.

I saw elderly people given help to feed in Southlands and Zachary Merton, but I only once saw that in Worthing, when a young nurse tried to help a very sick man.

E. Shepherd,

Clun Road,

Wick