The Repair Shop: NHS Special
The Repair Shop: NHS Special
Season 12 Episode 8 of 14
The team celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service by restoring items chronicling the evolution of the publicly funded healthcare system. First into the barn are nurses Catherine and Katie who bring metal-man Dominic Chinea a Thomas the Tank Engine food trolley from the children's ward at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, having been a feature on the ward for over 30-years, it has started to show its age. Bookbinder Chris Shaw is given the task of repairing the daily diary kept by nurses and carers who took care of author and poet Michael Rosen while he was in a 40-day induced coma at the start of the pandemic. Dr Adrian and his daughter Lydia bring in a 1960s GP's bag that belonged to Adrian's late father Noel. Leather expert Suzie Fletcher teams up with silversmith Brenton West to repair the bag and the medical instruments inside. Will Kirk is tasked with revamping an old wooden desk that Bill saved from being thrown away when he was a student at nursing school in 1987. Having completed all of his studying at the desk, Bill wants it restored so his daughter Fiona, an Occupational Therapist in the NHS, can do the same