BBC Breakfast show from
Cambridge University Hospitals

During the 60th anniversary week of the National Health Service, Cambridge University Hospitals played host to the BBC Breakfast show. Each morning (from Monday 30 June to Friday 4 July) the work of the Trust was showcased in celebration of the NHS.

 

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) was chosen by the BBC as an example of excellence in the NHS.

 

 

Highlights of BBC Breakfast from Cambridge University Hospitals (12 mins 30 secs)

 

The BBC covered a variety of the
innovative services the hospital provides:

 

Monday and Friday: Rosie delivery unit.

The report looked at the history of the NHS and how it's grown up over the last 60 years.

 

 

Tuesday: Live from ward L4 in the ATC.

 

The hospital's first Principal Nursing Officer, Miss Hazel Halter, who took over from the last matron in 1970, came back to see how we run things today.

 

The reporter asked "Should we bring back matron?" Hazel thought that the days of a supreme hospital matron are gone. She was impressed by our staff and facilities; of Audrey Foster's team on L4, she says: "I think personally seeing those girls, I thought they were doing a very good job."

 

 

Wednesday: Emergency Department.

The theme was innovation, looking at new developments that couldn't have been predicted back in 1948. High-tech examples of these developments included the Da Vinci robot and Tomotherapy - but the report also looked at EAU and the Medicine reorganisation, making the point that innovation isn't just about spending money on equipment.

 

 

Thursday: Sterile Services.

The coverage looked at the future of the NHS: how it can remain sustainable, how attitudes to funding have changed, and how it might develop to cater for a changing, aging, and growing population with attitudes to healthcare that have moved on in the last 60 years.

 

 

 

 

 

See BBC link: Innovation transforming NHS care