I WRITE with reference to your March 10 front page and editorial comment about our hospital's patients' notes being typed up in India.

You have discovered an item of news and you wish to make an interesting article for your readers.

In summary, you are saying how scandalous it is that hospital notes are keyboarded in India.

I am confident that the NHS have given the contract to a company whom they can trust for turnaround, security and value-for-money.

With the internet, it does not matter whether the operation is carried out within the hospital, in Hazlemere, in John o'Groats or Mumbai.

You have given publicity to a job opportunity for a local company to compete to do the work, if they chose.

Why do you keep running down our good local hospital?

You should support an initiative to improve the administration and for local staff to concentrate on medical work.

The title on your front page could have been: "Notes back on NHS computers overnight thanks to Indians." Support our local hospital. We are very proud of it. Also, the Bucks Free Press is now printed outside our county, I believe.

Mike Knell, High Wycombe