| Administrative History | Made for the Dept. of Health, Scotland. The film, directed by Kay Mander, is a dramatised account of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service. How medical facilities improved after the 1912 Dewar Committee. In particular, how the 'air ambulance' increased health care in the Western Isles.
Filmed on the islands of Lewis, Harris, North Uist and Barra, and at Ullapool, Inverness and Dingwall. With the exception of the specialist, all the players are amateurs. Kay Mander takes a cameo role as the bicycling district nurse. The scene where the doctor signals by flag for a ferry across to an island is the boat link to Berneray. Kay Mander being interviewed in 2000 recalls that Alex Mackenzie's character of the doctor was modelled on the local GP known as 'One eye Mackenzie' who lost an eye playing shinty as a student with John Grierson.
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