Health

A collection of videos featuring interviews, drama improvisations, observational footage and staged discussions around the shortcomings of health services, particularly for mental health patients, the elderly, and the continual effects of government policy cuts to NHS funding. Videos highlight the personal effect of long-stay ward closures, the lack of domiciliary care for the elderly, rise of private care homes, and the over-prescription of drugs for mentally unwell patients. Films are often a critical call to action, painting a broader picture of solidarity intersecting across trade unions, NHS workers, miners and individuals in a crucial opposition to the privatisation of health services during the Thatcherite era during the 1980s and early 1990s. Featured titles include: the Channel 4 trilogy by Barefoot Film, People to People: Health and Human Rights (1985), Who Cares and How Much? (1985), A Happier Old Age (1985). Other titles include: A Trade in Wind, Are you Fighting? (1985), Emergency – Keep Bethnal Green Hospital Open (1984), Now We Are Older… (1985), A View From Inside (1991).