The seventh in a series of nine documentary films about the Bolton Area Health Authority. A Working Day
A plastic surgeon has to correct six-month-old Joanna's cleft-palate. The finance subcommittee are apportioning next year's budgets. In Out-Patients, the staff are injecting varicose veins with a new drug.
Engineers are stripping down the boilers that supply the hospital with steam for sterilising.
Out in the town, agoraphobics are being acclimatised to open places. A woman has a lump removed from her breast. If, on analysis, the growth is malignant, there will be a mastectomy.
Film recordist julian BALDWIN Producer TIM KING