Keeping Britain Alive
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- Episode
- Episode 6
- Broadcast Info
- 2013 (58 mins)
- Description
- Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day episode 6. This groundbreaking series dispatched 100 camera crews across Britain to capture the NHS on a single day. The resulting series shows the extraordinary breadth of demands placed on our biggest institution. Through the experience of patients and staff, we see the joy and frustration, grief and heroism evident every day in the NHS. This film sets the increasing demands on the NHS against the very real costs of those demands. A mobile X-ray lab tours the streets of London to deal with the rise in TB among the homeless community; As Bristol GP Liz struggles to solve complex problems in the prescribed 10minute time slot, a Liverpool neurosurgeon prices up her theatre equipment in the hope of reining her colleagues in; and in south London an Overseas Manager walks the wards seeking out health tourists, those non-UK residents using the NHS for free when they should be footing the bill. And meanwhile yet another baby is born.
- Genre
- Medicine; Healthcare
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Keeping Britain Alive". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83848 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)