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Health Secretary on new patients charter (1991)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Health Secretary Willam Waldegrave on the new patients charter, designed to cut waiting lists in hopsitals, and improve the treatments of patients. Waldegrave explains the scheme,...

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Dr Udwin, the new Superintendant of Broadmoor Hospital (1981)

Broadmoor psychiatrist Dr. Edgar Udwin has been confirmed as physician superintendent of the top security hospital at Crowthorne. Dr. Udwin has been running the hospital since Patrick McGrath retired earlier...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Facing cancer (1988)

Journalist and radio broadcaster Dennis Laxton talks about facing cancer. Although the programme is tinged with sadness, Dennis reveals how he has learned to appreciate everyday life to the full. Dennis also...

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Funding for psychiatric patients (1994)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Liz Sayce, Policy Director of MIND, calling for greater spending on psychiatric patients rather than compulsory medication and enforced hospitalisation following the publication of a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hospital workers’ dispute - Movement of patients (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with union representative Vic Palmer on the movement of patients, and on alleged hospital thefts, during the hospital supervisors’ dispute. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Des Fahy?).

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Doctors’ duty is to NHS not patients (1994)

Genre

Interview

Roy Lilley explains his view that doctors should be helping to get the NHS right, putting as their first priority their organisation, not their patients. Follows his controversial statement of these views in...

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Hospital workers’ dispute - Service to patients (1978)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Colm O’Kane of COHSE, chief negotiator for the supervisors in the hospital workers’ dispute, on the service provided to patients during the strike. Male interviewer not identified (poss....

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NHS annual report (1994)

Genre

News report; Interview

Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley has launched the NHS annual report at a news conference at the Department of Health this morning. The annual report paints a picture of improving healthcare for growing...

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Robin Cook on patients charter (1991)

Genre

Interview

Paul Rowley interviews Labour Party health spokesman Robin Cook who claims the Government’s new patient charter is meaningless unless the funds are provided to improve the service.

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Broadmoor patient dies during industrial action (1988)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Industrial action by nurses at Broadmoor mental hospital has meant that some patients have been confined to their rooms and refused visitors. A patient died when he was administered a tranquiliser after a...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio