16 JANUARY 1988, page 24

Teaching Mr Worsthorne

Sir: Your issue of 2 January has just reached these shores. I read in it Mr Peregrine Worsthome's Diary, as charming as it was apocryphal, composed as though he had spent a long......

Sir: Your Correspondent Max Gammon (letters, 19/26...

the National Health Service embodies the traditions of the Poor Law, rather than the alternative ethos of the Voluntary Hospit- als, which he believes was extinguished in 1948.......

Letters Health Gravy Train

Sir: Even in the Soviet Union it has been recognised that problems must be acknow- ledged before they can be tackled, and articles like Alexandra Artley's ('Our medical......

Visit Nicaragua

Sir: Mr Mosley (Letters, 5 December) draws a lot of red herrings across his mistaken path. I criticised his first letter in which he complained that the education of the......