I WAS taken aback to hear Mike Procter felt that Ward 38 at York Hospital was not exclusively a neurological ward (The staff on Ward 38 are so specialthere is so much pride, and care, and sense, The Press, April 12).

After working on there for two years (I left in December 2006) and working with neurological patients on a daily basis, I have clearly been misled.

I would like to ask why the ward has an expensive video telemetry room for the use of epilepsy diagnosis (a neurological complaint) if Ward 38 is not a neuro ward?

I would also ask why bed managers would send neuro patients to the ward and, if they needed a bed for a neuro patient and we had a general medical patient, bed managers would try to accommodate. If there was bed space, they would move the non-neuro patient to a more appropriate ward, so that the neuro patient would have a bed on Ward 38 .

I would also suggest that most of the hospital be renamed. as most wards are named by number. It is well-known that there are wards for specific diagnoses or likely diagnoses. For example, there is a respiratory ward and a haematology ward. If every ward that is named by number does not have an exclusive purpose, why have bed managers ?

Jacqueline Darton, Barnsley.