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17 results found for '"Emergency health services"' in Keywords.
Simulated earthquake in San Franciso (1980)
- Genre
- Drama; Interview; News report; Special
Report on a simulated earthquake in San Franciso, organised by Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Includes actuality of the simulation, including injured people calling for help. Speakers include: Dr Mervyn Silverman;...
Woman dies during ambulance dispute (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Rodney Bennett reports on concessions over services by striking ambulancemen in Cleveland after a young mother died on the way to hospital during the dispute. With comment from John Hudson, South Tees...
Ambulance dispute - Drop in number of 999 calls (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the London Ambulance Service’s Chief Officer, Tom Crosby, who says emergency calls for ambulances have slumped since army vehicles were drafted in to replace regular ambulance crews. In the...
Hugh Millington, consultant, on ambulance dispute (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Margaret Shiels interviews hospital consultant, Hugh Millington about the ambulance workers’ dispute. He says he wants to see ambulancemen back at work doing their jobs before patients’ lives are put at...
Ambulance dispute - Army reaction (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nigel Dearing reports on the repercussions of the ambulance workers’ dispute. Army ambulance crews have spent the night answering emergency calls across London. They were ordered onto the streets after...
Ambulance dispute - Army reaction (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Margaret Shiels interviews Army ambulance crews at Charing Cross Hospital, following the start of the ambulance workers’ dispute. They were ordered onto the streets after both sides in the pay dispute...
Ambulance dispute - Workers’ experiences (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Shirley Mulrennan(?) interviews ambulance workers at Europe’s largest ambulance depot in Fulham, London. They speak about the mood of staff during the ambulance dispute and talk about struggling to survive...
Ambulance dispute - Man dies of asthma attack (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Simon Bowden reports on the death of a north London man who waited forty minutes for medical help â even though a fully-manned ambulance station was only five minutes from his home. 35 year-old Clifford...
Ambulance dispute - Controllers’ views (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Oni Bhattacharya reports on the continuing ambulance dispute. Ambulance controllers in London claim that up to six lives a day are being lost because the system to send out information to the Police and Army...
London hospitals on possible red alert (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Hospitals in London could today be asked to admit emergency cases only because of the current flu epidemic. The London Emergency Bed Service, which decides if the capital’s hospitals are able to cope,...