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Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy interview

Archive Collection
Contributor:
Julia Sheppard
Publication/Creation:
c. 1960-1993
Reference:
GC/171
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Description

Cassette tape and transcript of an interview, 1993, with Professor Kurt Hellman, Professor Gerald Westbury and Dr Kenneth Newton, former colleagues of Sir Stanford Cade at Westminster Hospital. Their reminiscences cover the closure of the radiotherapy department at Westminster and the re-organisation of the National Health Service in the 1980s, as well as their early years and the work of cancer therapy under Cade.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: GC/147.

Notes

Catalogued by Shirley Dixon, January 1995. This description based on that catalogue, Vanessa Bell, January 2003. Data below collection level converted to electronic form by Ross MacFarlane, June 2003.

Ownership note

On receipt of the radiotherapy case books of Sir Stanford Cade (GC/147), the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre arranged an interview with Cade's former colleagues at the Westminster Hospital, Professor Kurt Hellman, Professor Gerald Westbury and Dr Kenneth Newton. They were interviewed on 20 October 1993 by the Archivist, Julia Sheppard.

Physical description

1 box

Accession numbers

  • 551

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