Keeping Britain Alive
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- Episode
- Episode 5
- Broadcast Info
- 2013 (59 mins)
- Description
- Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a day. Episode 5. The fifth film in this landmark series sent 100 cameras across the UK to capture the work of the NHS on a single day from top to bottom. Compelling individual stories of staff and patients on the front line bring into sharp relief the difficult decisions being made at the Department of Health. Agnes and Rose are in hospital in London to have brain surgery to help control their tremors, which has a dramatic and immediate impact. In Blackpool, Terry, a patient in a psychiatric unit is taken on a day trip to the zoo to help assess whether he’s well enough to return to the community. We meet some of the 130 chemotherapy patients that are treated at a Manchester Cancer Unit on any one day and follow Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, just 6 weeks into the job, being given a tour of a new cancer centre in London. The film shows the challenge of taking care of people with long-term conditions, a job only likely to get tougher with an ageing population
- Genre
- Medicine; Healthcare
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The Open University, "Keeping Britain Alive". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83847 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)