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The first of a landmark eight-part series, filmed on a single day in the NHS. 'Keeping Britain alive : the NHS in a day' provokes profound questions about what the NHS does for us now and what we e...xpect of it in the future.100 camera crews filming across the country capture the extraordinary breadth of demands placed on the country's biggest institution on just one day at a critical time in its history. On this day, 1,300 of us will die, 2,000 will be born and one and a half million of us will be treated. Agnes and Rose are in hospital in London to have brain surgery to help control their tremors, which has a dramatic and immediate impact. In Blackpool, Terry, a patient in a psychiatric unit, is taken on a day trip to the zoo to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community. We meet some of the 130 chemotherapy patients that are treated at a Manchester Cancer Unit on any one day and follow Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, just six weeks into the job, being given a tour of a new cancer centre in London. The film shows the challenge of taking care of people with long-term conditions, a job only likely to get tougher with an ageing population.
The first of a landmark eight-part series, filmed on a single day in the NHS. 'Keeping Britain alive : the NHS in a day' provokes profound questions about what the NHS does for us now and what we e...xpect of it in the future.100 camera crews filming across the country capture the extraordinary breadth of demands placed on the country's biggest institution on just one day at a critical time in its history. On this day, 1,300 of us will die, 2,000 will be born and one and a half million of us will be treated. Agnes and Rose are in hospital in London to have brain surgery to help control their tremors, which has a dramatic and immediate impact. In Blackpool, Terry, a patient in a psychiatric unit, is taken on a day trip to the zoo to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community. We meet some of the 130 chemotherapy patients that are treated at a Manchester Cancer Unit on any one day and follow Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, just six weeks into the job, being given a tour of a new cancer centre in London. The film shows the challenge of taking care of people with long-term conditions, a job only likely to get tougher with an ageing population.
| Series: | Keeping Britain alive |
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| Episode | 5 |
| First transmission date: | 23-04-2013 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2013 |
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| Duration: | 01:00:00 |
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| Producers: | Amy Flanagan; Magnus Temple |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rn7pp OU website: http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/ou-on-the-bbc-keeping-britain-alive-the-nhs-day |
| Production number: | FKIA537R |
| Videofinder number: | 83847 |
| Available to public: | no |
