IT IS a travesty for Dr Mays (Courier, September 26, page four) to say to the Crediton Town Council that in 1988, when Crediton Hospital was built, it was "intended for elderly, frail, long-stay people to be in geriatric wards where the nurses would do things such as get patients' pensions for them from the Post Office... It was really a nursing care service". I was involved in a small way in getting Crediton's Community Hospital commissioned in 1988, and I worked there for nearly 10 years. It was planned as a GP hospital with a consultant visit once per week and was not as Dr Mays describes. I don't know where he obtained his "information" - he was still at school at the time. He made a number of other assertions which are questionable. Dr Christopher Maycock The Court Neopardy Crediton