Westminster Hospital Radiotherapy interview

  • Sheppard, Julia.
Date:
c. 1960-1993
Reference:
GC/171
  • Archives and manuscripts

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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.

Publication/Creation

c. 1960-1993

Physical description

1/2 box

Contributors

Biographical 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.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: GC/147.

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Accession number

  • 551