As well as being Britain's best-known agony aunt, Claire Rayner trained as a nurse and midwife after the Second World War. Her efforts to understand the origins of the nurse stereotype led her to consider a range of models from Hattie Jacques in Carry on
Matron to Arthur Marshall 's wartime comic creation, Nurse Dugdale. As hospitals evolve into ever-more technological institutions, some fear that nurses are losing their battle to delivera high level of dedicated, "hands On" care. Producer John Watkins
