Open Space — Season 1, Episode 7: National Health Service: 3: On Whose Authority?

Episode synopsis

Peter Pan fights for life! -as the people of North Kensington oppose plans to close the much-loved children's ward at their local hospital. Unhappily cast as Captain Hook and his cut-throat crew are the doctors and nurses and administrators of the Paddington and North Kensington Health Authority. They want to improve children's services in the district by centralising them at a brand-new unit being built in Paddington. The professional and lay members of the health authority have to find a solution which marries medical excellence and the community's wishes-and all within a reduced budget.

About Open Space

Open Space was a programme produced by the BBC's Community Programme Unit. It was an evolution of the earlier Open Door series of programmes allowing minority points of view to make a television programme about issues of concern to them. The programmes were transmitted on BBC 2 in a mid-evening slot and would attract audiences between 500,000 and 1,500,000. In a typical year there would be two or three groups of up to eight Open Space programmes each usually half an hour long. A producer, an assistant and a budget of up to £25,000 would be allocated to each programme.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Power in Your Hands
• E2Time and Other Thieves
• E3Christine's Children
• E4Chingari - The Spark
• E5National Health Service: 1: the Consultant's Tale
• E6National Health Service: 2: Mission of Mersey
• E8A Day Off the Buses
• E9Ducking the Rocks - A Social Worker's Life
• E10Downtown Video
• E11Health Care: Your Money or Your Life
• E12A Healthy Future?
• E13A Midsummer Night’s Belfast