Pioneers, The (6 Parts)

Synopsis

Series looking at ground-breaking medical research and treatment during the 50 years of the National Health Service.
1 (producer Fiona Holmes): Sir John Crofton describes how, as a junior doctor, was involved in the first drug trials of streptomycin in the 1940s and recalls the breakthroughs that led to the effective eradication of tuberculosis.
2: Looks at improvements in the treatment of mentally ill patients from the late 1940s, particularly at the work of Dr David Clark at the Fulbourn Mental Hospital in Cambridge, where in 1948 he set up therapeutic communities, introducing tranquillisers and establishing a more humane regime.
3 (producer Julie Clayton): Profiles the work of Dr Beryl Corner, who set up Bristol’s first premature baby ;unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. She began her medical career in 1934, and age at 85 recalls her struggle to work as a paediatrician at a time when women were barred from many jobs in medicine.
4 (producer Sally Doganis): Looks at the pioneering cardiac surgery undertaken by Donald Ross, who began his career in the 1940s when heart patients were packed in ice to slow their heartbeats to allow eight-minute operations; today many heart defects that would have been once fatal are routinely corrected.
5 (producer Robin Brightwell): Examines the work of Dr Barbara Ansell, who with her team at Taplow Hospital in Berkshire in 1946 pioneered techniques including physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and surgery, for treating childhood arthritis.
6 (producer Deborah Perkin): Describes how GP Julian Tudor Hart over a 30-year career has transformed health care in a Welsh mining village, using preventive medicine to help his patients to live longer, healthier lives. He took blood-pressure screening and treatment into the surgery and investigated links between bowel cancer and gut bacteria.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 30 min.

Year of production

1996

Availability

Sale; 2000 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Notes

Broadcast on BBC1 from 2/9/96.

Subjects

Medical sciences

Keywords

antibiotics; arthritis; general practice; heart surgery; mental illness; National Health Service; paediatric medicine; premature babies; preventive medicine; surgery; tuberculosis; women doctors

Credits

Producer

Deborah Perkin; Fiona Holmes; Julie Clayton; Robin Brightwell; Sally Doganis; Tessa Livingstone

Sections

Title

Battle with the bugs

Synopsis

1 (producer Fiona Holmes): Sir John Crofton describes how, as a junior doctor, was involved in the first drug trials of streptomycin in the 1940s and recalls the breakthroughs that led to the effective eradication of tuberculosis.

Title

Unlocking the asylum

Synopsis

2: Looks at improvements in the treatment of mentally ill patients from the late 1940s, particularly at the work of Dr David Clark at the Fulbourn Mental Hospital in Cambridge, where in 1948 he set up therapeutic communities, introducing tranquillisers an

Title

Saving babies

Synopsis

3 (producer Julie Clayton): Profiles the work of Dr Beryl Corner, who set up Bristol's first premature baby ;unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. She began her medical career in 1934, and age at 85 recalls her struggle to work as a paediatrician at a ti

Title

Affair of the heart, An

Synopsis

4 (producer Sally Doganis): Looks at the pioneering cardiac surgery undertaken by Donald Ross, who began his career in the 1940s when heart patients were packed in ice to slow their heartbeats to allow eight-minute operations; today many heart defects tha

Title

My special children

Synopsis

5 (producer Robin Brightwell): Examines the work of Dr Barbara Ansell, who with her team at Taplow Hospital in Berkshire in 1946 pioneered techniques including physiotherapy, hydrotherapy and surgery, for treating childhood arthritis.

Title

Good doctor, The

Synopsis

6 (producer Deborah Perkin): Describes how GP Julian Tudor Hart over a 30-year career has transformed health care in a Welsh mining village, using preventive medicine to help his patients to live longer, healthier lives. He took blood-pressure screening a

Production Company

Name

BBC Television

Distributor

Name

BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning

Contact

Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)

Email

BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com

Web

https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window

Phone

+44 (0) 20 8433 1009

Address

BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK

Notes

The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’