I strongly recommend that the board and new senior management, and the unnamed Consultant who insists that the hospitals are in disarray, should spend a week on Ward 7 at Westmorland General Hosptial.

There they will have good food, and will find a dedicated staff who are fully focused on patient needs.

Here is a motivated professional team. The personal inter-relationships seem to be working well and it would be wrong to say that staff morale is low.

They await an introductory "walk through" by the new Chief Executive.

<\p> Richard Boddy Burton-in-Kendal