That South Worcestershire Primary Care Trust underestimated the numbers expected at last Monday's meeting is a fact and, judging by past experience of the trust, not totally unexpected, but more worrying is the very lack of appreciation by this organisation of the importance put on one of the major issues for decades in this area.

Surely even the trust must now be influenced by the huge amount of public support for not just a 'sticking plaster clinic' attached to a hospice but a proper hospital capable of treating, short of surgery, the very large population this hospital will have to provide for, remembering of course that 24 beds today will be insufficient in 10 to 15 years time.

Also using the Royal Worcester Hospital as an example, if the hospital has 24 beds it will require five times that amount of car parking spaces.

Richard W. Brown, Ramsons Close, Malvern.