OVER the Christmas season we are running a forum where readers can exchange views on a variety of subjects. We will suggest a daily starting point, but from then on it is over to you, and if you wish to go off on a tangent, that’s fine, providing the chat is kept civil and decent.

We start with a question which arises from Nick Booth’s dispatches from the NHS front line, which you can read here, here and here.

It is simply this: How can attitudes (both staff and patients) in the NHS be changed?