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Time has come to put forward the case for hospital art

Monday, 27 August 2007

Letters to the editor should be sent to: 124-144 Royal Avenue, Belfast BT1 1EB. E-mail: writeback@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Your leader (Belfast Telegraph, August 13) which suggested that hospital art was a wasteful drain on the public purse, will invite many challenging responses both for and against in your Write Back columns.

Yet strangely, from amongst the major bodies with vested interests in funding such art, there has been not one letter from the person with the heaviest responsibility in this area, namely John Sean Nolan, chairman of Arts Care NI, the body which, in its own publicity, states that, using public money, its aim is to 'make all forms of art accessible to patients, staff and visitors in healthcare settings'.

If Mr Nolan has such a good case to make, why doesn't he make it? Or would he rather leave the fight to others?

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