| Richard Lamerton |
 Born in Bradford in 1943, Richard Lamerton originally wanted to be a dancer. However, paternal disapproval meant that he went
to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London in 1964, a profession he found to be 'suffocating' until he heard Cicely
Saunders lecture on care of the dying and realised he had found a niche. Richard Lamerton trained as a junior doctor at St
Christopher's and eventually became the physician at St Joseph's in Hackney, where he and Sister Mary Antonia developed the
home care service. Richard Lamerton has controversial views on both the development of home care services, and Macmillan nursing
in Britain. After a spell in general practice, Richard Lamerton undertook a grand lecture tour in the USA in 1983, and has
subsequently been medical director at St Michael's Hospice in Hereford, and currently at the Hospice of the Marches, also
in Hereford. The interview engages in discussion of Cicely Saunders, spirituality, the role of despair in the onset of cancer,
the use of complementary therapies, and the local management problems Richard Lamerton encountered at St Michael's in Hereford.
Richard has also had contacts with hospice development in Germany, New Zealand, India, Trinidad and Japan.
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| Interview conducted by Neil Small, 30 January 1997 |
| Interview Duration: 1 hour, 51 minutes |
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