Radio Cavell

Radio Cavell is an unique service to the Patients, Staff and Visitors to the Royal Oldham Hospital, providing a mix of Information and Entertainment taking into account the needs of the wide range of people who stay, visit or work in the Royal Oldham Hospital. A service that helps make a stay in hospital just a little bit more bearable by making the patient feel a little less alone. As well as providing a service to those the patients and visitors in waiting rooms, clinics and the many staff who work in the Royal Oldham Hospital. Radio Cavell plays a role in promoting and positively enhancing the health services and facilities being offered to the people of Oldham, and assisting in the improvement of the Health of the Nation. Oldham has an very long tradition of hospital broadcasting. In the mid 1930's the Matron at the Boundary Park Hospital organised regular Friday afternoon "patient entertainment broadcasts" over the 'Tanoy' system. Radio Cavell was formed in 1972, and since then has continued to develop into the service we hear today.