History of NHS TV

[Magpie]

Have just noticed that on my TV guide this morning it says BBC1 at 9.15pm "Matron, medicine and me:70 years of the NHS" and tomorrow it says it will be "The evolution of nursing". However further down the page it states that at 9pm it is Brian Cox talking about " Forces of nature" so I'm now totally confused!! Obviously need to watch for the correct programme.

[backman]

This was apparently on this morning at 09.15,I will try and watch it later;http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07k7pj3/matron-medicine-and-me-70-years-of-the-nhs-1-lucy-alexander

[Magpie]

Yes sorry everyone, blame it on my TV listings page.saw some of it and finding. Makes me realise how old I am having trained in the 60's but we were at the forefront of so many changes. It was filmed at Royal Victoria,Belfast so hope Eric and colleagues watching. I think it did capture the great camaraderie we all had and some of the fun as well as the hard slog. I wouldn't have had any other career, I learnt so much and had the foundations laid for a great career which my family are always telling me to write a book about. The spirit is willing but the discipline isn't! The next programme is on tomorrow at 9.15am BBC1.
My work actually continues, as my role as a Governor of our hospital Trust I sit on the Nominations committee and with the Chairman and Chief Exec spent all day yesterday interviewing 4 candidates for a Non Exec role on our Board then drove like a bat out of hell to get back to a Clinical Commissioning Group workshop on future plans for healthcare in our area, I don't think anyone involved will be on this site so quite honestly I can say  it's like pie in the sky, I know with my Trust hat on the finding and resource issues but I was firmly told they were not part of last nights work. I really despair. This afternoon I put on another hat as the Health and Care officer on the local Older Persons Forum and again the latest thinking of our local Social Services is that because of the huge cuts from Government they are looking at wait for it!! More involvement of the families in the care of older relatives, more volunteers and the latest may be to charge the elderly for their nursing home bed whilst in hospital. Interesting to be told last night they have had to introduce another age range for Hampshire statistics which is 95 - 108. I was talking to an elderly patient on a hospital inspection a couple of weeks ago and she told me she was 93 and daughter 72 so how are they expected to care or at the other end we have smaller houses, families moving away to work and both parents workingI just get so incensed as the old and vulnerable are treated so badly. Sometimes I wish my Grandmother hadn't been a suffragette, the old genes course through the veins! Now off to write reports on yesterday's meetings, never mind a peaceful morning painting at Art group tomorrow morning. Have a good day.