| Description | Tracks 1 - 19
Tracks 1 - 2 record a demonstration against proposed hospital closures. Tracks 3 - 19 provide details on health service finances and structures.
Charles Parker interviews Mrs Kerian and Mrs Wright at a demonstration outside a meeting of the West Midlands Regional Health Authority on 19 October 1977. Track 1 provides information on the protest, which is against proposed hospitals in Birmingham, including the Accident, Nerve, Skin, Jaffray and Sorrento Hospitals. A description is given of the Sorrento Maternity Hospital and the effects of public expenditure cuts on services are considered. Reference is made to the situation at Hounslow Hosptal (Track 2).
Tracks 3 - 19 record the first part of a wide ranging interview by Charles Parker with Penelope Muller, a expert in operational research who provides much information into health service finances and structures. Parker outlines his approach to recording statements (Track 3). Muller provides background information on various subjects including RAWP, the Resource Allocation Working Party (Track 4). The West Midlands Regional Health Authority's approach to RAWP is outlined (Tracks 7 - 8 & 14). The funding implications of medical centres of excellence and regional centres of specialism are considered, as is RCCS, the Revenue Consequences of Capital Schemes (Tracks 7 -8). The cases of the Queen Elizabeth, Birmimgham Accident and Selly Oak hospitals are discussed as part of this.
A range of service issues within the NHS are considered. These include the causes and impacts of hospital waiting times (Track 11) and bed blocking by elderly patients (Track 12). The extent to which democratic control exists within the NHS is considered (Trakc 13) and the relationships with local government services such as housing and social services is examined (Tracks 18 - 19).
Total: 1 hour 00:17 minutes
Dubber's reference number: PLA1of2 KF5730719980 |