Ken Bruce calls hospital radio a ‘lifeline for patients’ on the NHS’s 75th anniversary 📻 Returning to his roots, the PopMaster host reveal that his stint at HBS Glasgow 45 years ago taught him the most valuable lesson of his broadcasting career
Bruce delivers a powerfulduring the programme. “At its heart are the three core principles, it must meet the needs of everyone, be free at the point of delivery and based on clinical need not ability to pay.”
He asks: “How many of us listening today can say our lives are not richer, more prosperous or healthier as a direct result of the NHS?” Hospital radio is “a relatively small part of hospital life that’s had an immeasurable impact on patients, staff and the volunteers who look after us and keep us alive”., who started his career at Southlands Hospital in West Sussex.
Mayo explains how a wall chart in the studio listed records referencing “death or depression” that must not be played. Mayo had to disappoint one patient, who when asked for a request, chose Gary Numan’s
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