I HAVE returned home recently from a stay in Fairfield Hospital and wish to tell the world just how wonderful the people are, from the tea ladies to the highest-paid surgeon.

I cannot find suitable superlatives to describe how I feel and when I read press reports to the contrary it sickens me.

My three children, aged 54, 52 and 44, were all born at Fairfield and I had a hip replacement there seven years ago. It was a textbook job!

GRATEFUL PATIENT