I am delighted to hear Dr Helen Boyle's name is to be put on a Brighton and Hove bus.

For anyone who has not heard of her, Helen Boyle was a pioneer in psychiatric care. In an era when certification and incarceration of sufferers was the general rule, she believed mental illness could be cured given sympathetic treatment.

In 1905, almost 20 years before the Maudsley Hospital was founded in London, she opened a little hospital for women and children in Roundhill Crescent, Brighton, which over the years became The Lady Chichester Hospital.

If any of your readers would like to know more, a fuller account of the work of Boyle can be found in Rose Hill To Roundhill, published by Brighton Books.

-Jenn Price, Brighton