I was saddened to see, in your story about the treatment I received in the corridor at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, that the hospital management had passed the blame down to the frontline staff (The Argus, August 19).

I was told by the clinic staff that arrangements had been made for them to take patients into a larger room belonging to another department. However, that room was being used by two of that department's patients at the time. Perhaps being treated with only an audience of two is better than being in the corridor.

The staff in the splints and appliances department are helpful, intelligent, friendly and efficient and deserve better than having the blame dumped on them by management.

The problem will only be resolved by moving the technicians out of their windowless broom cupboards and back into decent-sized consulting rooms.

You would expect a hospital to need to deal with patients in wheelchairs, so every room in which patients are seen should be big enough for wheelchair users as a matter of course.

-Jennifer John, Newhaven