Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS (2016-2018)

Denise Lewis returns to New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton to retrace her grandmothers' footsteps, who worked as a nurse for 40 years after arriving from Jamaica in the 1950s. Through meeting current and former NHS staff, Denise sees how the NHS has changed and what her grandmother's experiences would have been. Denise explores what has changed at the hospital since her grandmother worked there, getting a glimpse into their new heart and lung centre and witnessing the cutting-edge surgery that the NHS provides. But there is another, even more personal reason that Denise wants to return - for the hospital her nan worked in is the one which treated and cared for her before she passed away in 2005 from breast cancer. Denise visits the ward her nan was treated in and hears stories of life in the NHS today from patients and staff there.