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Bluespot, The Knee Clinic

Bluespot’s sponsorship of The Grand has been undertaken to support the community within which this dynamic knee clinic is conducting its business, but is also a choice rooted in logic and history. The Bluespot team have a highly choreographed routine that allows them to handle each operation with the ultimate level of efficiency, each team member having a definitive role to play as the theatre lights are set, equipment rolled into place and positions assumed. The modern operating theatre in which they and Mr Sampath work is the descendant of surgical theatres that once entertained members of the public who paid to view operations. This is why, to this day, we refer to the operating room as a theatre.

Mr Sampath also has a strong tradition of working with performing artistes, having been the back stage Orthopaedic Cover for The Boston Ballet when he was completing his Orthopaedic training at Harvard.

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JOSEPH¹S CARD DESIGN WAS SPOT ON FOR CHRISTMAS 2006

The red carpet was rolled out at The Grand Theatre on Thursday 21 December, when one of Lancashire’s most talented young artists was treated to the full Hollywood treatment.

Joseph Bowden-Mills, aged eight, was chauffeur driven in a stretch limo from his home in Newburgh, near Wigan, accompanied by his family, and all because he won a Lancashire-wide competition to design a Christmas card.

On arrival at The Grand Theatre, he was greeted by a reception party headed by Mr Shameem Sampath of The Bluespot Knee Clinic, a sponsor of the theatre and one of the few reference centres for computer aided surgery in the world. Bluespot sponsored the Lancashire Education Business Partnership’s Christmas card competition for the second year running and assisted other county-wide initiatives organised by the LEBP.

As the flash guns went off, Joseph was proudly showing off the winning design that wowed the judges, a Christmas tree on which the decorations are children from many different nations across the world, all linked together in peace and harmony.

Joseph literally rose to the top of the tree, with his entry being just one of over 800 received from 50 schools across Lancashire. Despite fierce competition from other seven and eight-year old children, Joseph’s design shone out, thanks to a message that was truly spot on for Christmas.

The reward for his creativity was to watch the Dick Whittington pantomime, with his family, from the comfort of the Bluespot Knee Clinic’s box. He then travelled back home in the limo, ensuring he had lots to tell his school pals when he returned to school.

His card design has been professionally printed and used as the official Christmas card of both the LEBP and Bluespot Knee Clinic.