Keeping Britain Alive
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- Episode
- Episode 2
- Broadcast Info
- 2013 (59 mins)
- Description
- This groundbreaking 8-part series tells the story of just one day in the NHS. 100 camera crews were dispatched across the country to show how this massive institution intersects with every aspect of life in Britain. Through the stories and experience of staff and patients, the series captures the extraordinary breadth of demands - the joy and the frustration - evident on each day in the NHS. Second episode in a landmark 8 part series, filmed on a single day in the NHS. 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, 1300 of us will die, 2000 will be born and 1 and a half million of us will be treated. It features the anxious parents in a neo-natal unit awaiting news from a critical scan and an ex-boxing champion battling his demons at a Welsh detox clinic. In Essex, Susan struggles with her husband’s worsening dementia, while in London, Alan prepares for hi sfirst ever operation in which he will donate a kidney to wife, Ann. The film shows those things the NHS can fix and those long term conditions it can’t - where the burden of care often falls on loved ones..
- Genre
- Medicine; Healthcare
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The Open University, "Keeping Britain Alive". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83844 (Accessed 03 Mar 2026)