For more than 50 years, volunteers have been making a difference in Ipswich NHS patients’ lives through hospital radio.
Hospital Radio Ipswich at Ipswich Hospital first launched in 1971 and it continues to operate, run entirely by volunteers 24 hours a day.
John Alborough is one of those volunteers, having joined the team in 1974, and he has seen vast changes to both the NHS itself and radio in that time.
For him though, it is talking with patients at their beds that he enjoys the most and he says it is a vital service.
