News archive: NHS 70
Our NHS celebrations make the news
Radio Clatterbridge has been given the lead article in the latest issue of the industry publication for hospital radio. Our recent celebrations to mark 70 years of the NHS at Clatterbridge Health Park was given top billing in On Air…
Praising the NHS with tea, coffee and cake!
Radio Clatterbridge has helped celebrate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service by partying like it was 1948. We joined workers, patients and volunteers to mark the historic milestone with a series of special programmes.
Nursing Director opens up about NHS cancer care
A senior hospital manager has told Radio Clatterbridge about her own personal experience of the NHS after being treated three times for cancer. Gaynor Westray, Director of Nursing at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, was speaking as part of the 70th birthday…
Cancer Centre to invest in Clatterbridge
Listeners have been told that The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre will continue to invest in its Wirral site despite some services moving to Liverpool. It comes as the hospital celebrated the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service.
Septuagenarians share their NHS stories
Three septuagenarians have been sharing their personal stories of the NHS with Radio Clatterbridge. The trio, who were all born in the same year as the health service was formed, were talking as part of a special week of programmes to…
Celebrating the NHS at 70
Radio Clatterbridge is joining the rest of the UK in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service. The NHS was launched here in the north west by Aneurin Bevan, the health secretary at the time, at Manchester's Park Hospital…
John Crane’s soaring praise for the NHS
Radio Clatterbridge's art and antiques expert is back behind the microphone after experiencing the good work of the NHS at first hand. John Crane revealed he has been recovering from a chest problem.