Blackpool: Tory Party Conference: Day 1

Blackpool: Tory Party Conference: Day 1; ITN-BBC POOL/ITN via GRANADA - SOURCES INSEPARABLE ENGLAND: Lancs: Blackpool: Winter Gardens: EXT MS Pensioner (woman) holding NHS petition & asking for signatures MS Group of midwives gathered outside PAN L-R pensioners gathering signatures CMS Petition signed MS Ambulance driver handing out support leaflets Victoria Hospital: INT BV Nurse tending elderly woman PAN L-R nurse dispensing drugs from trolley CMS Drugs dispensed from trolley BV Nurse administering drugs to elderly woman EXT CMS Gerald Wildish (Unit General Manager, Victoria Hospital) intvwd SOF - concerned about the speed of the introduction of changes within the health service BMA Fringe Meeting: GV BMA fringe meeting ZOOM IN speaker TGV Audience LMS Speaker CMS Member of audience criticises speaker SOF MS Another member points & shouts speaker Conference Hall: GV Audience CMS Paul Twyman, North Thanet speech SOF - accuses the BMA of scare-mongering TGV Conference Hall as delegates applaud SOF LS Platform as Kenneth Clarke stands at podium CMS Kenneth Clarke MP, Health Secretary speech SOF - critics who are reduced to personal abuse must be short of true arguments CMS PM Margaret Thatcher (looking tired) applauds TLMS Platform as Clarke at podium - cracks joke: Q."What do you call a man who won't take medical advice? A. Healthy" MS Party Chmn Kenneth Baker & Home Office Minister David Mellor smiling TGV Audience applauding SOF CMS Thatcher smiling TGV Audience applauding SOF TGV Platform as Clarke at podium CMS Clarke jokes about Norman Lamont (chief Sec to the Treasury) MS Kenneth Baker MP, Conservative Party Chmn seated between David Mellor MP, Health Minister & PM Margaret Thatcher on platform MS SIDE Audience giving standing ovation SOF CMS Christine Hancock, Royal College of Nursing intvwd SOF - criticises Clarke for attacking the doctors CMS Dr John Bedell, Lancashire Medical ...