ACCORDING to a recent report published in a national newspaper, St Helens is one of the worst areas in the country for people dying in hospital.

I would like to ask the health authority what, if anything, is going to be done about this?

The health authority prides itself, and publishes the good things it achieves. What about publishing this in the local paper and stating what they intend to do about it?

We, the people of St Helens, have a right to know these facts. They are scary, especially as the majority cannot afford private health care.

What is happening in the hospital (Is it Whiston? As that is where we get sent.) We were told when St Helens Hospital was trimmed down, it would be better for us to go to Whiston as more money would be pumped into it to modernise it.

Apart from the distances the sick have to travel, well, the proof is now in the open about how good it's been for us -- we are dying in hospital!

Why are we one of the towns at the top of this mortality list?

Mrs N. Ellis, Sidlaw Avenue, Parr.