- Title: Dispatches: Operation Lottery
- Date: 31st January 1996
- Summary: Contributors include patients; Dr Margaret Thomson of Ninewalls Hospital,Dindee; John Studd,Consultant Gynaecologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital; Dr Sally Hope,GP; Prof Angela Coulter of the King's Fund; Prof Klim McPherson of the London School of Tropical Medicine; and Prof Stephen Smith of Cambridge University.
- Description:The investigative series reveals how many women in some parts of Britain can be four times more likely to have a hysterectomy than women elsewhere in the country and questions how many of the one hundred thousand hyster- ectomies performed in the whole of Britain each year are even necessary. Contributors include three women who have had the operation without consent,GPs,a gynaecologist,medical spokesmen.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Unspecified
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:31/01/1996
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s