Looking Back: How technology has changed

In 1984 I was a casualty porter, as it was called back then, and wandered into the Biochemistry Department at Peterborough District Hospital to take this picture of Davinder Bhalla nee Sharma.

Wow, how the technology has changed in 42 years!

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1984 in the Biochemistry Department at Peterborough District Hospital

Dramatic changes too in the pathology department, as my picture shows, with Bob Kaukis and Neil Malton working at a blood grouping machine. What used to take a very long time is now fully automated and analysis is completed in minutes.

See many more images of our NHS in my book ‘Just be Kind’ which is available from my website.

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