Next Episode of 24 Hours in A&E is
unknown.
Cameras film around the clock in some of Britain's busiest A&E departments, where stories of life, love and loss unfold every day
The documentary following life inside an A&E department returns for its first series outside London - at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. Sister Lou tells her story of working at the hospital for more than 30 years and how her life completely changed in her 50s. Forty-five-year-old Kirsty has been rushed into QMC after an accident at a fun run. The team members carry out extensive tests on 93-year-old John, who is suffering from shortness of breath, and in the children's emergency unit, seven-year-old Hunter is being assessed after falling from a tree.
74-year-old Mick is rushed in with suspected sepsis and his wife shares her experience as his full time carer. 61-year-old Jillian comes in after a fall and recalls when her husband was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. Keith arrives with a fast heart rate and while staff urgently try to bring it down his wife talks about raising deaf children and being diagnosed with the `deaf gene".
An 18 year-old is rushed in after suffering a cardiac arrest during a football game and 30 year-old Tom has a severe ankle injury after a head-on traffic collision. In the Minor Injuries department 23 year-old Phoebe has a damaged nose after tripping in the library.
Twenty year-old Peta is rushed into Queen's Medical Centre after coming off her motorbike, her mum explains the struggle she went through raising a child with both Asperger's and ADHD. After a previous stabbing 21 year-old Callum was left with a stoma, he arrives at the hospital after it has badly prolapsed. Forty-four year-old Libby comes in after being hit in the face with a hockey stick, she tells the story of how her professional footballer husband taking on a new career path changed her life.
Hospital staff at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham treat three female university students who have been victims of a spate of needle-spiking attacks. Twenty year-old Kate is rushed in after collapsing in a nightclub and having to receive CPR from a friend when she stopped breathing normally. In the Urgent Treatment Unit 19 year-old Pavni and 21-year-old Sarah meet while waiting for treatment after what they suspect to be needle-spiking. While being treated Pavni talks about the racist abuse she faced growing up and Sarah reveals the impact COVID-19 has had on her university experience.
A 21-year-old has crashed his motorbike into a telegraph pole and has serious leg and lung injuries. And a patient with the paralysing locked-in syndrome is struggling to breathe.
Sara, 46, is rushed in after a car crash with serious head and chest injuries, and 54 year-old Simon comes in after falling off his bike on his way to buy a helmet. As his condition deteriorates, Simon looks back on his life and the things he wishes he had done differently. Sixteen year-old James comes in with a severed finger after trying to climb a fence.
Looks like something went completely wrong!
But don't worry - it can happen to the best of us,
- and it just happened to you.
Please try again later or contact us.