Limehouse doctor.

Concluded after his death in 1993, this film is a tribute to the late Dr. David Widgery of Tower Hamlets (London), G.P., author and committed socialist. The cameras follow Dr. Widgery through his daily routines and reveal how post-reforms health provision in a deprived area is retreating into the very situation out of which the NHS was created half a century ago. Dr. Widgery opposed fundholding, considering it likely to place G.P.s in pointless competition with each other. In his 12 years in the East End of London, he saw its hospitals reduced from 14 to 3. The closing scenes, shot after Dr. Widgery's death, show patients and healthworkers continuing the struggle against inadequate resources and overwhelming bureaucracy.