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In Touch: David Rathband and Moorfields Video Consultations

14/07/2020

David Rathband and Moorfields Video Consultations

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, David Rathband and Moorfields Video Consultations

Ten years on from the Rathband shooting and Moorfields Video Consultations.

The shooting of PC David Rathband by Raoul Moat is the subject of new online performance, and the thousands of patients seen online at Moorfields Eye Hospital during lockdown.

Ten years ago the shooting of PC David Rathband by the fugitive killer Raoul Moat shocked the UK. Blinded in the attack, the police officer eventually took his own life. 

The manhunt unfolded in real time against the relatively new backdrop of social media. We talk to writer Christopher Hogg whose award-winning drama Rathband explores the resonances of a tragedy which mirrored the communication failures and breakdowns which still define the medium today. He discusses the role Peter White's early interviews played in the conception of the drama and Robin Paley-Yorke discusses his role as host of a new Zoom performance and the perspective living in the North East and losing some of his own sight in a violent incident brought to the project. 

Lord Low of Dalston gives us his take on the new Business and Planning Bill which makes it easier for bars and businesses to put seats out on the pavement and Consultant Paediatrician Pete Thomas tells us about a revolution taking place at Moorfields Eye Hospital during Lockdown. As Director of Digital Innovation he tells us about the thousands of patients  accessing online consultations throughout lockdown and how the technology could change how consultants work in the future. 

Presented by Peter White
Produced by Kevin Core

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