Series 5 (2020)
The story of the NHS in unprecedented times. Series 5 charts the day-to-day life of seven NHS Trusts across the city of Liverpool.
Release date: 2020-02-13
User rating:
9 / 10
Directors: Nicola Comber, Andrew Dedman, Peter Grant, Chris Rowe, Charlie Slade
Episodes (8):
1. Episode 1
On Merseyside, operating theatres shut but emergencies continue to arrive as patients are caught up in an extraordinary hospital move.
Release date: 2020-02-13
2. Episode 2
In Aintree Hospital’s major trauma centre, a 15-strong team are trying to save the life of a young man who has been stabbed in the chest – one of three stabbings to arrive during the day.
Release date: 2020-02-20
3. Episode 3
Heart disease remains the biggest killer in the UK and every 5 minutes, across the country, someone has a heart attack. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital's specialist services are on the frontline of this modern epidemic.
Release date: 2020-02-27
4. Episode 4
As medical advances save children who a decade ago may not have survived, Alder Hey Children's Hospital faces the challenge of providing ongoing care for these complex patients.
Release date: 2020-03-05
5. Episode 5
With NHS `bed blocking' numbers are at their highest level since 2017, Liverpool's hospitals are struggling to discharge patients because of a lack of care in the community.
Release date: 2020-03-12
6. Episode 6
In accident and emergency at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, a woman is brought in after experiencing an unexplained seizure. Potentially a warning sign of a complex brain condition, patients like this are referred onto a neurological specialist.
Release date: 2020-03-19
7. Episode 7
Alder Hey Children's Hospital is home to a world-renowned craniofacial department, one of only four in the UK treating life-threatening congenital skull and facial abnormalities.
Release date: 2020-03-26
8. Episode 8
The final episode looks at radical new treatments and surgeries offering cancer patients hopes of survival, including two-year-old Yeshua, who has a tumour in his abdomen. In Iraq, where he was born, Yeshua was given a five per cent chance of survival. Though high doses of chemotherapy have shrunk the tumour over the past six months, in order for Yeshua to survive he needs an extremely complicated 12-hour operation at Alder Hey Children's Hospital to remove as much of the growth as possible.
Release date: 2020-04-02
Rest of the cast - click here to expand
Miranda Raison - Self - Narrator (voice)
Crew - click here to expand
Nicola Comber - Director, Andrew Dedman - Director, Peter Grant - Director, Chris Rowe - Director, Chris Rowe - Producer, Dan Howell - Producer, Peter Grant - Producer, Laura Mead - Production Manager, Shebani Walia - Production Secretary, Hannah Blackwell - Producer, Beccy Green - Production Executive, Meghan Just-Truelove - Producer, Malcolm Remedios - Researcher, Will Coker - Colorist, Rosie Gray - Production Manager, Hamish Fergusson - Commissioning Editor, Charlie Slade - Director, Jo Taylor - Head of Production, Mark Rossiter - Editor, Emma Loach - Commissioning Editor, Jackie Waldock - Executive Producer, Duncan White - Legal Services, Liz White - Accountant, Matthew Cracknell - Music, Tristan Powell - Sound Mixer, Simon Dickson - Executive Producer, Lorraine Charker-Phillips - Executive Producer