Keeping Britain Alive
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- Episode
- Episode 4
- 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. The fourth film tells 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.
- Genre
- Medicine; Healthcare
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Keeping Britain Alive". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83846 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)