This letter is written from 31 Whitehawk Avenue Brighton and comments on LIA_43_2 in which JH Martin replied from the Department of Health and Social Security on behalf of David Ennals MP. In it LM asks why he has not been compensated for the loss of his leg due to medical negligence despite having paid into the NHS for many years. He compares his situation unfavourably to the compensation paid to the old owners of the newly privatised industries in 1945 and to a victim of slander.