Superbug outbreak
- Title
- Superbug outbreak
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
- TX Date
- 25 May 1994
- Year of production
- 1994
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- Duration
- 00:06:50
- Description
- David Kermode reports on the Group A Streptococcal superbug outbreak which has spread from Gloucestershire to other parts of the UK, killing people along the way. Includes interviews with Sally Howard, spokesperson for Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton; Justin Allen of the Royal College Council of General Practitioners; Commons speech by junior Health Minister Tom Sackville. Followed by interview with Labour shadow Health Minister Dawn Primarolo calling for a statement from Health Minister Virginia Bottomley to calm fears. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- David Kermode; Tom Sackville; Dawn Primarolo; Sally Howard; Justin Allen
- Keywords
- Deaths; NHS; Medical treatment; Gloucestershire; Virginia Bottomley; Dissemination of information; Streptococcal infections
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