NHS staff were majestic

Sir, - The NHS has had an awful amount of bad press recently in nearly all forms of media.

However, contrary to some of the reports one may read, it is far from all bad.

Recently my wife tripped at home and it was obvious immediately that she had broken a bone in her wrist/arm.

We drove straight to Ninewells A&E and my wife was seen by a nurse within 15 minutes.

She was X-rayed and unfortunately our initial thoughts were confirmed.

All the staff were excellent, kind, caring and took on board all her medical history.

A doctor explained clearly all the options and, due to it being 8.30pm by now, a supporting cast was used until the consultants could examine things in the morning.

So a night in Ward 18 followed.

At this point I do not wish to use individual names, as again everyone senior or junior was simply excellent.

They listened to us both, and took notes of everything including what dietary problems there were plus the numerous drugs and pain killers that my wife is allergic to.

A special mention to the junior doctor that spent quite some considerable time with her in the early hours making numerous notes of her medical history and consultants she has been seeing at Ninewells for some 10 years.

Again, her treatment through pre theatre the following morning was wonderful.

The NHS may be woefully short of funding but the professional and ancillary staff are nothing short of majestic.

RWHHuds on, North Mains of Ballindarg, Forfar.

In this increasingly unstable world it is a thoroughly bad idea to continue the promotion of instability by recommending very significant constitutional change instead of more simply addressing and improving issues of grievance