I read with interest the letter from Brian Hicks (December 3/4) about the closure of the Hollies Nursing Home in Stanford Road, Brighton.

I would ask anyone who visits nursing homes and sees neglect of patients to speak out.

It does not matter if the questions you ask are embarrassing and uncomfortable, you could be saving someone's life.

It is easy to see all these things going on around you, and go home to your own home and comfortable life.

You can tell family and friends how bad things are and be disgusted by it, but if you say nothing, then you condone it. A lot of people in nursing homes do not have a family or a voice to speak for them.

-Mrs J. Robins, Brighton