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This programme forms a link between the previous seven programmes which have looked at inequalities within the UK, and the following series of broadcasts which look at international inequalities. T...he British National Health Service relies on overseas trained doctors for at least one third of its manpower, and the programme explores the reasons why this is so by looking at the experience of overseas doctors working in Britain. Featured in the programme is Dr. S. S. Chatterjee, an Indian who has been treating patients in Britain for twenty-nine years and is a consultant at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He is also the Chairman of the Overseas Doctors Association in the UK. Also featured is Dr. Akram Sayeed, a Leicestershire General Practitioner, and other doctors, who give their reasons for leaving their countries of birth to come to work in Britain. Essentially, the programme moves on to raise the question of who benefits most - the doctors themselves or the British National Health Service?
This programme forms a link between the previous seven programmes which have looked at inequalities within the UK, and the following series of broadcasts which look at international inequalities. T...he British National Health Service relies on overseas trained doctors for at least one third of its manpower, and the programme explores the reasons why this is so by looking at the experience of overseas doctors working in Britain. Featured in the programme is Dr. S. S. Chatterjee, an Indian who has been treating patients in Britain for twenty-nine years and is a consultant at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He is also the Chairman of the Overseas Doctors Association in the UK. Also featured is Dr. Akram Sayeed, a Leicestershire General Practitioner, and other doctors, who give their reasons for leaving their countries of birth to come to work in Britain. Essentially, the programme moves on to raise the question of who benefits most - the doctors themselves or the British National Health Service?
| Module code and title: | D302, Patterns of inequality |
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| Item code: | D302; 10 |
| First transmission date: | 13-07-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:15 |
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| Producer: | Graham Turner |
| Contributors: | Satya Chatterjee; Margaret Kiloh; John Percival; Akram Sayeed; J. N. Sahay; N. Bhattacharjee; S. Chabra |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Doctors; Inequality; National Health Service |
| Footage description: | Kiloh introduces the programme with some medical statistics comparing the UK and India - life expectancy, doctors per head of population etc. Clip from film by John Percival on aspects of the health service in Ceylon. Kiloh compares this with NHS hospital facilities such as at Wythenshawe hospital. Two of the many overseas doctors in NHS are briefly shown at work, Dr. Chatterjee at Wythenshawe Hospital and Dr. Sayeed as a Leicester G.P. Doctors Sahay, Bhattacharjee and Chatterjee look briefly at the services in their home countries. Doctors Bhattacharjee, Chabra, Sayeed and Sahay outline the main reasons for many doctors coming to Britain for career development. Clips from the Horizon programme The Immigrant Doctors emphasise their role in the NHS. Chatterjee and Sayeed comment on who is benefitting from all these overseas doctors. Finally Sayeed discusses how the disadvantage experienced by underdeveloped countries could be overcome. Credits. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72203 |
| Production number: | 00525_2285 |
| Videofinder number: | 191 |
| Available to public: | no |
