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To find out more about become a member, click here for our dedicated membership site or see below for more information. Thank you for showing interest in The Pulse! **News Update** Our next open evening will take place in January 2021 - date t.b.c. To reserve your place, please email secretary@westhertsradio.com Would you like to be part of an amazing charity serving the patients and staff of West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust and the wider community? Are you reliable, hard-working, enthusiastic and willing to be part of a brilliant team? If so, we would love to hear from you! To get things going, we have created a comprehensive ‘Q&A’ below which includes......

Fundraising Appeal

The Pulse Hospital Radio has been providing radio, music and entertainment to patients and staff since 1955. Unfortunately, this could no longer be the case. Since the very beginning when they were providing Watford FC football commentary from a broom cupboard they have strived year by year to improve their service and are now broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to patients, staff and visitors in Watford General, St Albans and Hemel Hempstead hospitals. In order to continue, the radio volunteers have vowed to raise £10,000. The money will go straight into the radio service, allowing more time for patient interactions, entertaining visitors and keeping our NHS boosted with......

Our History

It was 1955 when Watford Hospital Radio began in a broom cupboard in the Peace Memorial Hospital. The earliest programmes were recorded football commentaries from Watford’s Vicarage Road ground which were played back over the hospital radio system later that evening. This proved so popular with the patients in the hospital that a landline was soon installed so live coverage of the games could be relayed to the wards. In the early days, church services were also broadcast to the hospital via a landline from St Mary’s Parish Church and the Watford Congregational Church. This led, in May 1967, to pre-recorded music programmes. In December of that year all four Hospitals in......

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