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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 episode takes a look at the NHS outside of the hospital environment, and through a vast patchwork of experiences reveals the health system's role in British lives from cradle to grave. Featuring a Yorkshire District Nurse who spends her day changing dressings and tubes for elderly patients, a maverick GP in Everton who takes in addicts and abusive patients who have been rejected by other surgeries, and a pair of West Midlands paramedics who compare their nightshift to that of a mini-cab service. In London, the air ambulance crew rush to the scene of two serious accidents, whilst in Birmingham, a medical student makes his 16th sperm donation.
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 episode takes a look at the NHS outside of the hospital environment, and through a vast patchwork of experiences reveals the health system's role in British lives from cradle to grave. Featuring a Yorkshire District Nurse who spends her day changing dressings and tubes for elderly patients, a maverick GP in Everton who takes in addicts and abusive patients who have been rejected by other surgeries, and a pair of West Midlands paramedics who compare their nightshift to that of a mini-cab service. In London, the air ambulance crew rush to the scene of two serious accidents, whilst in Birmingham, a medical student makes his 16th sperm donation.
| Series: | Keeping Britain alive |
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| Episode | 7 |
| First transmission date: | 07-05-2013 |
| 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: | FKIA539E |
| Videofinder number: | 83849 |
| Available to public: | no |
