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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. In the third episode: a GP struggling with an unusual medical emergency on a Scottish Island and a top surgeon performing a high risk brain operation while the patient Daryl is still awake. In London, Pat waits anxiously for his wife Laura to come round from an induced coma. This film shows the vastly different contexts in which the NHS operates; urban and rural; both the cutting edge treatment for those who are critically ill with the more everyday procedures that make up the ailments and dilemmas of modern Britain.
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. In the third episode: a GP struggling with an unusual medical emergency on a Scottish Island and a top surgeon performing a high risk brain operation while the patient Daryl is still awake. In London, Pat waits anxiously for his wife Laura to come round from an induced coma. This film shows the vastly different contexts in which the NHS operates; urban and rural; both the cutting edge treatment for those who are critically ill with the more everyday procedures that make up the ailments and dilemmas of modern Britain.
| Series: | Keeping Britain alive |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 09-04-2013 |
| 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: | FKIA535D |
| Videofinder number: | 83845 |
| Available to public: | no |
