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ON SCREEN: “a history of healthcare innovation”
ON SCREEN: “1867: carbolic acid used to sterilise surgical instruments”
ON SCREEN: “1896: Almoth Wright invents anti-typhoid vaccine”
ON SCREEN: “1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin”
ON SCREEN: “1948: NHS is founded, unveiled by Aneurin “Nye” Bevan”
ON SCREEN: “1953: Watson and Crick discover DNA is a double helix”
ON SCREEN: “1956: Colin Murdoch invents disposable syringes”
ON SCREEN: “1965: Frank Pantridge invents portable defibrillator”
ON SCREEN: “1973: Godfrey Houndsfield invents CAT scanner”
ON SCREEN: “1989: umbilical-cord blood used to repair damage from chemotherapy”
ON SCREEN: “2000: The Sanger Centre produces a draft of the human genome”
ON SCREEN: “2003: Peter Mansfield wins Nobel Prize for the MRI scanner”
ON SCREEN: “2007: Imperial College grow a heart valve from stem cells”
ON SCREEN: “2009: Innovation for a healthier future”
ON SCREEN: “2020: miniaturised haemo dialysis equipment in universal use?”
ON SCREEN: “2030: reversal of brain pathology for dementia?”
ON SCREEN: “2040: cure for obesity?”
ON SCREEN: “In 1948 a cataract operation immobilised a patient for a week. Now it’s over in 20 minutes and most go home the same day.”
ON SCREEN: “In 1958, hip operations were so rare patients had to return them post-mortem.”
ON SCREEN: “The first UK heart transplant patient survived 46 days.”
ON SCREEN: “Transplants are now routine and at least two dozen could be done in the same period.”
ON SCREEN: “The world waited until 1978 for the first test tube baby.”
ON SCREEN: “6000 test tube babies are now born here annually.”
ON SCREEN: “The breast screening programme introduced in 1988 now saves the lives of 1400 women a year.”
ON SCREEN: “No-one now waiting more than 18 weeks for referrals to treatment.”
ON SCREEN: “9000 fewer deaths from cancer.”
ON SCREEN: “One of the highest percentages of women being screened for cervical cancer worldwide.”
ON SCREEN: “33,000 fewer deaths from cardiovascular in people under 75 in 2007 compared with 1997.”