LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Royal Marsden to close?

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

10 Apr 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:04:09

Description

Lizzie Knight reports on uproar over Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley’s plans to re-organise London’s hospitals, which is threatening her career as John Gorst MP is mounting a parliamentary challenge. Newspaper reports on the planned closure of the Royal Marsden Hospital (specialist in cancer care) are denied by Mrs Bottomley. Also speaks to Dr John Marks, former BMA chairman and Gordon McVie of the Cancer Research Campaign, who insists the Royal Marsden will not be allowed to close; John Austin-Walker, Labour MP, opposing closures; Geoff Martin of London Health Emergency pressure group.

Contributors

Virginia Bottomley; Lizzie Knight; Gordon McVie; John Marks; John Austin-Walker; Geoff Martin

Keywords

London; Government; Health services; Conservative Party; Hospitals; Cancer; Virginia Bottomley; John Gorst; Royal Marsden Hospital; Cancer Research Campaign

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