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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. This film sets the increasing demands on the NHS against the very real costs of those demands. A mobile X-ray lab tours the streets of London to deal with the rise in TB among the homeless community. As Bristol GP Liz struggles to solve complex problems in the prescribed 10-minute time slot, a Liverpool neurosurgeon prices up her theatre equipment in the hope of reining her colleagues in, and in south London, an Overseas Manager walks the wards seeking out health tourists, those non-UK residents using the NHS for free when they should be footing the bill. And meanwhile yet another baby is born.
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. This film sets the increasing demands on the NHS against the very real costs of those demands. A mobile X-ray lab tours the streets of London to deal with the rise in TB among the homeless community. As Bristol GP Liz struggles to solve complex problems in the prescribed 10-minute time slot, a Liverpool neurosurgeon prices up her theatre equipment in the hope of reining her colleagues in, and in south London, an Overseas Manager walks the wards seeking out health tourists, those non-UK residents using the NHS for free when they should be footing the bill. And meanwhile yet another baby is born.
| Series: | Keeping Britain alive |
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| Episode | 6 |
| First transmission date: | 30-04-2013 |
| 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: | FKIA538K |
| Videofinder number: | 83848 |
| Available to public: | no |
