How many of us need the services of District Nurses? People who have not known how they would cope when loved ones dying with cancer, both young and old?

They are out all in weathers, often in deep snow and have to walk to patients.

They are short-staffed and short of finances for both equipment and very necessary things that they need for every day.

Diabetics need regular insulin and have infections often. Some nurses are under tremendous pressure and cannot meet time. It’s been known a maximum 17 hours to 17 and a half hours to elapse between infection times, not very long.

The Stafford Hospital events are nothing to some people as long as the dirt was swept under the carpet and misdemeanours covered up.

My husband had nurses coming in and no one knows how grateful we are to them. You do get the odd one out who just sees it’s a job not a profession but the majority are angels in disguise and the ones who have the guts to speak up are ignored.

The nurses at Stafford deserved a medal. No wonder the press and government did a sterling job sorting chaf from the wheat.

Maybe this is what the NHS needs in every area, no doubt it takes time. But maybe this is just the beginning, not only for diabetic patients, but for others.

Our nurses become like family, sharing our fears and worries and giving us old ones dignity and along with our surgery, the right to die when we are old with our dignity.

God bless these nurses and doctors who care. Thank you for being the voice of the people.

A housebound and disabled lady, Rowley Regis