Protests at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals merger plans

Title

Protests at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals merger plans

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

2 Mar 1994

Year of production

1994

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:24

Description

David Kermode reports from Guy’s Hospital in London where patients and health workers are holding a rally this lunchtime to protest against plans to merge with St Thomas’ Hospital based on recommendations made to Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley by Sir Bernard Tomlinson’s review of healthcare in the capital. Professor Brian Jarman has now questioned the statistics Tomlinson based his review on. With comment from Alison Moore(?), midwife at Guy’s; UNISON representative Dave Osborne(?); Labour Party health spokesperson Dawn Primarolo; Health Minister Dr Brian Mawhinney. For Midday Report.

Contributors

David Kermode; Brian Mawhinney; Dawn Primarolo; Alison Moore(?); Dave Osborne(?)

Keywords

Health services; Guy’s Hospital; Public hospitals; Hospital patients; Virginia Bottomley; Health statistics; St Thomas’ Hospital; Bernard Tomlinson

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.