I WAS admitted to Ward 11 at Darlington Memorial Hospital a few weeks ago with bowel cancer.

I would like to thank Mr Harrison and his team and Sarah Dixon and her team of nurses for the excellent care I received.

Everybody was so kind to me. I was very afraid because I’d never been in hospital before.

Our hospitals in the North-East are the best in the country, never mind the south, give me the dedicated NHS workers any day.

God bless them all.

Tricia Hart, Durham City.