THE recently published "performance tables" for all the Hospital Trusts in England show that every single one achieved the "target" for hospital cleanliness, whatever that may mean.

So that's all right then. All those reports about the prevalence of dirty, unhygienic conditions contributing to the spread of dangerous infections in hospitals must just be media myth.

Ken Beavan,

Albemarle Road,

York.

Updated: 09:33 Saturday, August 03, 2002