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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. The story of a tetraplegic coming to terms with the changed relationship with his daughter; the former pilot and burns victim undergoing the latest of many bouts of reconstructive surgery and a couple in a bedside vigil over their daughter in a Birmingham Critical Care Unit. In Sussex, military plastic surgeon Tania operates on a young patient who lost her legs to bacterial meningitis at the age of 17. The film shows the range of different ways in which the NHS helps people live as normal a life as possible, from rehab to nutrition appointments, gender reassignment to nipple tattooing.
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Series: Keeping Britain alive
Episode 4
First transmission date: 16-04-2013
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: FKIA536X
Videofinder number: 83846
Available to public: no