Nightingale wards offer visible reassurance for everyone.

I wish to thank consultant physician Alan Roberts for endorsing my belief that the widespread loss of Nightingale wards has had a detrimental effect on nursing care (reflections January 25).

Back to basic bedside ministering.

I have to question whether the 'academics' who are forcing this so-called professionalism onto nurses either know or remember what it is like to be in the real world of hands-on nursing.