A&E closure at Barts Hospital

Title

A&E closure at Barts Hospital

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

27 Jan 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:03:27

Description

Robert Allen reports on the three-year campaign to save the Accident and Emergency (A & E) ward of St Bartholomew’s (Barts) Hospital and the final hours of the battle before the ward closed on 27th January 1995. Includes interviews with: former Casualty Sister Nicky Ross on the closure; Tom Sackville, Health Minister, on the health policy behind the closure; Tim Battle, spokesman of Royal Hospitals Trust, on the provision of alternative health services.

Contributors

Robert Allen; Nicky Ross; Tom Sackville; Tim Battle

Keywords

Health services; Hospitals; St Bartholomew’s Hospital; Save Bart’s Patients Campaign; St Paul’s Cathedral; Royal Hospitals Trust; Tomlinson Review; Virginia Bottomley; Margaret Beckett

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