Oxford High School pupil Alice Stuart-Hall, of Thame, spent a week at the John Radcliffe Hospital while doctors ran tests for stomach problems she has suffered for five months.

As a teenager, she was given a room in the adolescent unit, and here Alice, right, explains why that made her stay more comfortable...

The nurses don't wake you up when you stay in the adolescent unit, so you can sleep in during the morning - although sometimes the hospital noises wake you up.

It's just one of the reasons why staying there is so much better than on the normal children's ward, where there are screaming babies and they wake you up for breakfast.

There's a lot more privacy if you want it. The nurses will knock or ask before they come in and most of the rooms or cubicles are private, although there are a few very open places.

There's a large room called the day room, and, apart from when the nurses hold the occasional meeting or have lunch in there, you always have access to it.

As well as school equipment, it has large, comfy sofas, a television, games, books, magazines and a cupboard of videos.

You can use any of these, and take a video or book into your own room and watch or read it there.

There is also part of a kitchen, which is only for the patients, but parents and visitors can make cups of tea there.

The kitchen area contains a sink, a toaster, cereals, cutlery, plates, bowls, sugar and squash. There are also two fridges where you can store your own food if you would rather not eat hospital food!

Visitors can come at any reasonable time, and if you are busy with a doctor they can wait in the day room.

There isn't an actual separate building for it, but there is a hospital school with a teacher in every ward.

All the bedrooms are quite different, but mine has a bed, a private toilet, a bedside table, a video player, a television, a phone and a fan.

I think I was quite lucky to get that room!