Gossip.
• Brighton Health Care NHS Trust has produced a very worthy booklet detailing action taken on suggestions to improve the lot of patients and staff. Among the 138 ideas received, 'The chairman should purchase a second suit and bin the tatty blue pinstripe which gives us a bad image.' Agreed,' says the managers' response. 'The chairman hits now purchased a second new suit at his own expense.' Good to know democracy in the NHS is not dead.