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Filmed over six weeks during the past three months, Hospital is the story of the NHS in unprecedented times.Edited and broadcast within weeks of filming, this timely six part series for BBC Two will capture the day-to-day realities facing the NHS right now.With exceptional access to one of the UK's biggest and busiest NHS Trusts, Hospital will bring audiences intensely close to the issues and challenges that continually dominate the headlines.Each episode will show with exceptional candour the ever-increasing demands on the NHS's services, from intricate and morally complex medical ethics to health tourism; from A&E overcrowding to cancelled operations.Shown from multiple perspectives and for the first time, the audience will see the extraordinary dilemmas and decision-making which happen every day for the consultants, surgeons and bed managers, all of which have profound consequences for patients and treatments.Crews shot across five hospitals in Imperial College Healthcare Trust London to understand the complex decision making and the impact each one can have, following the key decision makers as they attempt to care for nearly 20,000 people every week. But standing in their way are limited resources, an increasing number of emergency patients and a clock that never stops ticking. Produced in partnership with The Open University.
The city's new state-of-the-art hospital remains unfinished, three years after it was due to open, so two of the biggest hospital trusts are planning an ambitious merger. But this means that hundreds of patients and staff have to be transported across the city, while all the operating theatres bar one are closed.
At Aintree Hospital's major trauma centre, a 15-strong team try to save the life of a young man who has arrived by emergency helicopter. He has been stabbed in the chest - one of three stabbings to arrive during the day. Across the city at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, staff deal with a homeless man who has been returning for at least 18 years. He is always treated with patience and dignity and given somewhere to sleep his alcohol or substance misuse. However, his increasingly aggressive behaviour leads to him being issued with an ultimatum.
Eighty-one-year-old Joe has been left with a hole in his heart after suffering a heart attack, and face a complex procedure that carries a high-mortality rate. Ellie, 28, is one of the growing population of adults with congenital heart disease, who had devices fitted into their hearts as children, and need further procedures as they get older. Already cancelled twice before, she hopes that this time her operation to replace her pulmonary valve with keyhole surgery will go ahead, so she can begin to plan her wedding to Jade.
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