A lame response to NHS ward closures

If there is one thing more depressing than increasingly frequent ward closures in the NHS, now including cancer care units (Report, 19 November), it is the impossibly complacent responses from the Department of Health.It is no use at all stating that there are “11,900 more nurses on our wards since 2010” when, according to the Nuffield Trust, there is currently a shortage of more than 100,000 staff across the NHS, and the department is clearly not providing the “support they ne