31 JULY 1982, Page 20

Exceptional people

Dear Sir: I was glad to see your Notebook item about staff at the Charing Cross Hospital (24 July), which entirely resembles. my own experience at St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, where staff are doing all they can to make sure that the public suffer as little as possible during the industrial action.

It is astonishing that the Government does not recognise the validity of the health workers' case. Having served the general public for peanuts for decades, they are an exceptional group, for whom exceptional measures should be taken. The Government runs the risk of Icing the allegiance of some of its supporters by what appears pig-headed intransigence. as Jonathan Fryer

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