Health authorities: obsessed by structures.

Last January, Brian Watkin suggested (Journal, January 25) that the constitution of health authorities as essentially lay bodies required further consideration. He concluded that it would be far better for an authority to consist of a chairman, a group of executive directors (the area management team or area team of officers) and a group of nonexecutive directors who might be appointed or elected in a variety of different ways. Frank Pethybridge, regional administrator, North Western RHA, begs to differ