Gill Dummigan
@MsGillD
BBC Health Correspondent for North West England.
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13-07-2010 08:43:22
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For anyone who missed Sammy Atherton ‘s story this week - it’ll be on BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning - round about 0745.
Massive thanks to Sammy Atherton and all the staff for allowing me and Sean Twamley to show the whole amazing process.
“Out of all of the deaths in the UK, less than one percent of people are actually eligible to be an organ donor”. The final film in this week’s series on heart and lung transplants at Heart & Lung Transplant MFT, 6.30 BBC North West and iPlayer bbc.com/news/articles/…
Lovely morning spent with the inspirational The Electric Cranks Cyclists, Wythenshawe TC filming the latest piece for this week’s transplant series Heart & Lung Transplant MFT with @CamermanST Watch the film on BBC North West tonight at 1830 bbc.com/news/articles/…
Also - a chance to catch up with Sammy Atherton whose lung transplant we showed yesterday. Catch it on iPlayer before 6.30 if you missed it.
The next in this week’s series on the amazing work at the Heart & Lung Transplant MFT centre. Watch at 1.30 on BBC One and tonight at 6.30. bbc.com/news/articles/…
You can see his operation tonight on BBC North West at 1830 and on iPlayer for 24 hours after
This was an amazing experience filming Sam getting his new lungs. Many thanks to him and his family and the surgical team at Heart & Lung Transplant MFT in Wythenshawe Hospital. bbc.com/news/articles/…
It’s six years since I first followed the Carroll family’s fight for this drug. Now they face their next hurdle. BBC North West tonight at 1830 Ollie's Army MFT NHS bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
You can still see Queen of Greens in action on the BBC North West report until 6.30 tonight - just search for our programme on iPlayer. It’s there for 24 hours
The Queen of Greens bringing fresh fruit and veg to Liverpool’s “food deserts” set up by Feeding Liverpool and Feedback Many thanks to greengrocer Paul and Lucy Antal for explaining it all to me bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Many thanks to Angela O'Connor and those at JBW.SpinalSurgeon.SalfordRoyal. Spire. RMCH who shared their experiences with me
A navigational robot at The Walton Centre is helping surgeons increase accuracy and speed in delicate spinal operations. If you missed the report on BBC North West last night - here it is again. Fascinating stuff
“Many of the GPs I talk to are struggling to find work” find out why on BBC North West in a few minutes bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Out in the snow this morning with striking clinical support workers from Wirral NHS Hospitals - Arrowe Park & Clatterbridge who say they’ve been underpaid for years. They’ve been out since the new year and are continuing until next month. More on BBC North West at 1330
Just finishing tonight’s film for BBC North West on how food and housing poverty in Liverpool impacts on health. Community groups like KFCA and Feeding Liverpool doing amazing work to combat that. Dr. Naomi Maynard Cait Taylor 💙
Many thanks to the people who agreed to be interviewed for this, also Sean Twamley Al Quarterman Louis Harris-White Ian hunter and Steve Glew