In response to your article by Sara McCorquodale regarding the hospital cuts at St Helier (Pyjama drama, October 5). As far as I could remember, when my late husband was a patient, he had to take his own pyjamas, apart from the time that he was admitted as an emergency, straight from the doctor's surgery.

I thought this was a routine thing to do when one was a patient in hospital. I can certainly remember taking my own night attire when I was a patient, albeit not at St Helier. The same happened when both my mother and brother were in Kingston Hospital.

Obviously when you have surgery they give you the appropriate gown but at other times you wear you own clothes.

I cannot understand why they are going to give sandwiches at lunchtime. I assume this means that they are going to give a hot meal in the evening.

I would have thought it more beneficial to have a hot meal at midday and more of a snack in the evening.

I know when I have been in hospital, I did not want two cooked meals a day and would have welcomed having something like a sandwich in the evening.

Carry on the good work. We need more people like you fighting our case.

MRS S E DAY Godalming Avenue Wallington