Television (1994 - 2005)

Television (1994 - 2005)

This is a selection of TV appearances

The London Programme - The Tomlinson Report (recorded)

London Tonight - Threatened closure of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (recorded)

London Tonight - deaths on waiting lists (recorded)

BBC Newsroom Southeast - treatment for ‘emergencies only’(recorded)

ITN News At Ten - NHS Cuts in London Teaching Hospitals (recorded)

Newsnight - ethics of treatment being denied to smokers (recorded)

BBC2 ‘Hypotheticals’ - debate on hypothetical scenarios in NHS (recorded)

ITN Lunchtime News - Michael Heseltine’s first heart attack (live)

The Judy Finnegan Debate - Granada TV live debate on NHS bed closures, hospital league tables (live)

Public Eye - The impact of NHS reforms on waiting times for heart surgery (live)

BBC News - Meeting with Mr. Tony Blair over health services in London (recorded)

Sky TV Channel One - interview on impact of closure of Barts Accident and Emergency department (live)

BBC Newsroom Southeast - interview on Bart’s threatened closure (recorded)

London Tonight - interview on the effect of closing Barts A and E on chances of hospital’s survival (live)

BBC2 ‘The Midnight Hour’ - debate on a) positive discrimination for women and b) report of the Health Select Committee (live)

BBC1 Breakfast Programme - reaction to health debate in House of Commons the night before (live)

BBC2 ‘Big Science Programme’ - long recorded interview on evidence based medicine and the dangers of a computerised numerical approach to treatment at the expense of clinical freedom (recorded)

ITV ‘The Time - The Place’ - Anglia TV debate on hospital waiting lists and bed closures (live)

Sky TV Channel One - interview on a report in the papers after the General Election on the future of Teaching Hospitals including Barts (recorded)

BBC Newsroom Southeast - interview on the announcement of London’s health review (june 1997 - live)

BBC 2 ‘Trust me I am a doctor’. Feature on alcohol and crisps and a healthy heart (November 1997)

BBC1 Newsroom South East. Feature on the saving of Barts (live February 1998)

Channel 5 ‘Open House’ with Gloria Hunniford. Chat about eating habits and heart disease with Gloria Hunniford followed by a question and answer phone in. (Live April 1998)

BBC1 National News. Feature on the government’s proposal to ‘name and shame’ incompetent doctors post-Bristol. (recorded December 1998)

GM TV. Live broadcast on Robert Winston’s criticism of New Labour’s record in the NHS. Live with Eamonn Holmes (2000)

GM TV. Live broadcast on gene therapy for resolution of atheroma in mice and relevance to humans. Live with Eamonn Holmes (2000)

Gloria Hunniford’s Open House. Live Channel 5 broadcast and phone in on advances in heart disease (Live 2000)

Gloria Hunniford’s Open House. Live Channel 5 broadcast about the dangers of over-exercising when unfit. (Live May 2001)

Sky News December 2001 Feature on coronary deaths amongst football fans during a penalty shoot out between France and Holland in the European Championships (recorded)

Sky News July 2002 feature on HRT and deaths from strokes (live in Westminster studio)

Sky News September 2002 Feature on Electron Beam CT scanning to detect early coronary heart disease (Recorded)

The following appearances on TV occurred on the day Tony Blair had his ‘heart problem’. October 2003

BBC Breakfast TV (live)

ITV breakfast TV (live)

BBC News 24 (recorded)

BBC 6 O’clock news (recorded)

SKY TV Sunrise (live)

The following TV appearances occurred when Tony Blair had his cardiac procedure in 2004

Sky News Live

BBC breakfast Live

BBC News 24

June 2005 BBC breakfast TV Live: To discuss the refusal by NICE to authorize the use of the ‘super-aspirin’ to treat heart attack survivors

July 2005 Channel 5 live ‘Doctor Doctor’. Popular TV magazine show and phone in. I was talking about the risk of heart attacks and early detection.

August 2005. BBC2 ‘The Private Life of Harley Street’ Part of a documentary series on Harley St Doctors. The camera crew recorded me seeing patients in my rooms and in a ward round at the NHS Hospital St Bartholomew’s, and doing procedures at the Wellington Hospital

September 2005 Channel 5 ‘Docs on the Box’ Recorded programme about medical dramas and soap operas and their history, accuracy etc.

I have also appeared twice as a guest on Chelsea TV!!