HAVING recently moved from another area of the country to Wotton. I read with surprise and growing anger your misleading and sensationalistic head line of last Thursday. As a patient at Culverhay Surgery I have found the surgery friendly, efficient and helpful with waiting times for routine appointments perfectly reasonable. Every query I raised has been helpfully dealt with.

Also, the Gazette may like to reflect that flu jabs are not compulsory. If a patient chooses not to have it, it is deeply unjust to penalise the surgery. You should be talking to patients and getting their feedback not paying attention to the NHS management who have questionable relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. Where is the spirit of investigative journalism that represents the best and most responsible journalistic approach?

Questions need to be asked but not facile headlines that insult simultaneously the intelligence of your readers and the hard-working medical staff at this Surgery

Ruth York

Jays Mead

Wotton-under-Edge