Help celebrate 60 years of NHS

Date published: 14/05/2008

The NHS will be celebrating its 60th Anniversary this July and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust (HMRPCT) is asking local people to help mark the occasion.

The official date is 5 July but the PCT is planning to organise a range of activities throughout the month.

To help celebrate the occasion locally, the PCT is looking for stories from patients and the public about how the health service has helped them or touched their lives over the past 60 years. It might be photographs of relatives working for the NHS in years gone by or a story about a family who has kept the same GP for generations. Old or new, all stories and materials are welcome.

“However big or small, we really want to hear about the health stories of our local population,” says Trevor Purt, chief executive of Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust.

“The NHS has changed dramatically over the past 60 years and we want to demonstrate how this has happened locally. We want to go right back to 1948 when the then named Rochdale Children's Orthopaedic Hospital was in operation, up to the present day where we are developing a range of new and innovative services. We will also look at what the future holds for the health service, taking into account the Next Stage Review of the NHS being developed by Lord Darzi.”

Whatever your story, get in touch with the PCT by visiting the HMRPCT website and clicking on the NHS 60 logo:

www.hmrpct.nhs.uk

Or call: 01706 652824.