Bill of health for hospital food

I WRITE with reference to the article by Mark Bradley (Yorkshire Post, April 1) regarding cheap and nasty hospital food.

On March 13, I was admitted to the Airedale General Hospital for emergency treatment. On the first day, I was given a card to fill in for meals. There was a varied choice of main and dessert courses which were served carefully by courteous and competent catering staff.

On my last day there, I left in the early afternoon, wistfully thinking of the salmon salad which I had ordered for the evening meal, but would have to forgo because of my early departure.

From: Alan Marsden, Pledwick Lane, Sandal, Wakefield.

WITH reference to the article on hospital food, I have in the past year spent three weeks in Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, and I can only say that I was perfectly satisfied with the food I had.

Heartbeat of the real Dales

From: Mrs Jean Dann, Ing Royd, Stainland, Near Halifax.

I THINK that Mrs Wolfe (Yorkshire Post, April 2) missed the point. The TV programme The Dales is about the area and the lives and work of the people who live there and who keep its heart beating.

The shots of the scenery and its beauty is enough to draw visitors, if this is the point, but I don’t think it is.

Compared to the previous programme, The Lakes which was irritating at best, The Dales promises to be first class viewing.

Bad medicine for the English

From: Alan Chapman, Beck Lane, Bingley.

ON April 1, I thought the BBC was setting up an April Fool joke. There were to be no prescription charges in Scotland but in England a 20p increase. Then I read the Yorkshire Post that confirmed the truth.

I wonder what the reaction would be if it was the other way round? Quiet stoicism or howls of Sassenach outrage?