Keeping Britain Alive
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- Episode
- Episode 8
- Broadcast Info
- 2013 (58 mins)
- Description
- Keeping Britain Alive: the NHS in a Day episode 8 The eighth film in this series that tells the story of just one day in Britain’s largest institution. A compelling patchwork of experiences from both staff and patients capture the huge breadth of demands; the joy and grief, frustration and heroism evident every day in the NHS. This final film looks at the country’s single biggest killer - heart disease. Every day 282 people will have a heart attack. 200 will die. In Manchester, a specialist team race to treat a steady stream of heart attack victims, some of whom have a twenty-year history of heart disease. In Liverpool six-month-old Kyran undergoes open heart surgery to correct a defect first detected in the womb and in Yorkshire, air ambulance paramedics attempt to resuscitate an eighty-year-old mechanic who has collapsed while working on a neighbour’s car. Despite improvements in treatment, our increasingly sedentary lifestyle combined with an ageing population will only add to the pressure on the NHS - a dilemma playing out across the whole organisation as demands increase and the money to pay for it doesn’t.
- Genre
- Medicine; Healthcare
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The Open University, "Keeping Britain Alive". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83850 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)