Is anyone watching 'Hospital'

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I really really hope Drew makes it...

Yes, I am.
Such horrific choices.

Yes. It must be hugely stressful for everyone

So scary for Drew to be all on his own as he listened in to the surgeon telling his mum the surgery carried a 25% chance of death.

Great news for Drew

Come on Brian!!

Yes I really felt for him. He must have been terrified

Do they keep starving these patients just in case?

Heartbreaking.

That poor mum and daughter - with so few beds available, I don't see how she would ever get to the top of the list on any single day.

The stress caused to the staff having to make those decisions day in day out.
The fact a surgeon has to run round checking on bed availability when he should be operating.
It's going to take a long time for the nhs to recover, and it's desperate for the patients who are affected by this pandemic, whether they've had COVID or another condition.
This series is so important

Is this a second season of it please? On BBC?

It is!
I have friends in the NHS and even more who have recently retired. When they say how bad it is, I admit I have a tendency to believe them, but equally to think it is just public services. Too much pressure on a severely creaking system with too few resources. But, unsurprisingly, in the NHS, the decisions are full on life and death.
Yet the people most qualified to make complex clinical decisions are pleading for beds and roaming the corridors.

Season, series I mean! Obviously its hardly a Netflix original 🤦‍♀️

And it is so scary how Covid patients go from apparently ok (to the outsider's view) to critical, so quickly.

It's so hard for the relatives not to be there

And how awful that the call to say his relatives can visit him - which is all they want to do - is the call they don't want to have because they know what it means.

And the government has just slashed doctor jobs...

Oh no poor David

That poor guy who died of covid....he was only about 49!

Unbelievable that young girl was left with a dislocated hip for a year!

'Fast tracking hundreds of nurses into the NHS'.
Before the current Covid wave in India. How often has the west drawn the 'brightest and best' or the most needed workers, away from the places that trained them and where they are desperately needed?

@Scarby9

'Fast tracking hundreds of nurses into the NHS'. Before the current Covid wave in India. How often has the west drawn the 'brightest and best' or the most needed workers, away from the places that trained them and where they are desperately needed?

Yes, the ethics of this are questionable. Maybe the U.K. need to concentrate on not only training more nurses but ensuring working conditions are sufficient that people aren’t leaving in droves to the extent we have to recruit from India, the Philippines, etc.

The backlog of treatment and surgery is a nightmare, made worse by the fact it’s increasingly hard to get bank staff to cover shifts as they’re all working in the vaccination centres. Same pay, easier work.

I was in floods when David died
The scary thing is that when they first aired this documentary pre covid, it wasn't much better in terms of resources and difficult decisions . Acute care will keep going for quite a while but the NHS is dying a long slow horrible death (I work in it).

Desperately sad and sobering viewing, but an important programme.

Same pay, easier work, grateful public, almost carnival atmosphere when I had my vaccine, achieving targets each day with very little to knock you off course, plenty of volunteers doing all the admin.

What's not to like in comparison with ringing relatives to say you can't do anything more to help, or telling a very ill person for the nth week in a row that they have dropped off the no.1 spot for surgery again?

This is season 4 iirc. They were in Nottingham and Liverpool previously,

@Misty9
You and all the other NHS workers - thank you for keeping going in the face of these nigh on impossible odds.
I wish you cash, more resources and a strategic focus rather than clapping and empty words.
I hope this series gets a wide audience. So important in giving some glimmer of an insight into the realities.