BREATHTAKING - itv 9pm -mon 19 - wed 21 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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This looks really good and meant to be very powerful

3 parts on this week mon Tue and wed

After the huge impact of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, another social and political reckoning could be coming with the searing new three-part drama (https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/drama) Breathtaking.

Based on palliative care doctor and writer Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir about the Covid-19 crisis, the hard-hitting series is an account of the life of a frontline NHS doctor through the pandemic.

“There is so much misinformation and rewriting of history around what really happened inside our hospitals during the pandemic,” says Clarke.

“The truth is, NHS staff gave everything they had in impossible conditions that sometimes cost them their lives.

It is an honour to try and depict the courage and decency of my NHS colleagues on screen, and I’m so grateful to ITV and HTM Television for giving me the
chance to show the public the truth.”

The three-part series is based on Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir, where she wrote about her own experience of working during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Set in a fictional big-city hospital, the drama narrates how frontline medical staff endured fear and frustration as they desperately tried to save the lives of coronavirus patients,” reads the show’s synopsis.

It recounts the devastating impact of the pandemic through the eyes of acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson (Froggatt).

Who is in the cast of Breathtaking?
• Joanne Froggatt as Dr. Abbey Henderson.
• George Georgiou as Hue.
• Lucy Montgomery as Clare Boxall.
• Georgia Goodman as Divina Aquino.
• Jodie McNee as Jules Jarmen.
• Mark Dexter as Mike.
• Bhav Joshi as Dr. Ant Vyas.
• Henry Meredith as Tommy.

@CloudyYellow I heard of things like that happening. It's nice to hear that they did help.

I think it showed that the majority of people in this country are good, decent people. Feeling the general public was behind us helped. Cannot say the same for the government and hearing about PartyGate makes me sick as so many people suffered.

I remember a news reporter saying that staff were using video calls to keep patients in contact with their families,the nursing staff were holding the phone/iPad so as not to spread germs,so kind, so thoughtful,so patient considering their enormous workload at the time.

@CloudyYellow totally agree. I'm a childminder and I stayed open looking after mainly NHS / care staff children and the shitshow the government gave us with the daily rules and policy changes, and clearly not having a clue was bad enough. I can't imagine dealing with that nonsense at the same time as facing what you did each day.

The nurses absolutely did do that and doctors were phoning families too.
I doubt there are many nurses or doctors that have not stayed with someone so they did not die alone. I saw only kindness and bravery in the face of staff being terrified for their safety and their family's safety.

Just started watching tonight's
Scary for the patient next to that one who arrested

Bloody hell that sign next to Davina saying what matters to her 😢

Just sobbed my way through ep 2. I just take my hat off to all NHS frontline staff who worked through covid and I'm so sorry how you have been treated since. Just seems like no recognition, no memorials to staff who died in service. I feel like you have been let down so badly.

This is just so sad and hard hitting. So many things have been kept from the public. DD worked in a care home at the start and they lost 23 residents within 3 or 4 weeks, she then started as student paramedic in Sept 20 and one of the scenes which struck a cord was her ringing us when she was round the corner from home, so I could open the front door and then stand back so she could just walk straight up the stairs to the shower without touching anything and putting her clothes in a pillow case so they could go into the washer before they touched anything as well.

I really don't have anything other than sheer contempt for politicians.

Watched episode 1. As an ITU nurse, it's fascinating/horrifying to see what other departments went through. Normally I have a pretty good idea, but during COVID it was just heads down get on with it.
We were so very lucky to have PPE.

I was working nights during second lockdown. I used to stand in the back garden and strip, clothes in big bucket of disinfectant and run straight through the house and up the stairs for a shower, washing myself in hibiscrub before I'd even let my kids near me.
The things I saw I will never ever get over.

The care home we visited weekly before
Covid so knew the manager well. She said what the 'oldies' went through was horrific in not being Able to see their friends or family for months /years

Many died - some via covid and some as simply gave up as without their f&f they had nothing to look forward to

@lovinglaughingliving 💐💐

They are fairly standard in hospitals and have been there since before covid. When my Grandpa was in he had one. Helps the nurses make conversation with the patient and even had that he liked one sugar in his tea

When I saw that sign in the programme it made me well up as it reminded me of my Grandpa who passed away just before covid came about

JenniferBooth · Yesterday 21:10
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Are they going to show the untested elderly patients being discharged into care homes”

Yes

Davinas death was heartbreaking

I knew she would die

It was a nose tingle and blink eye and grab a tissue for me

Junior doctor here

I’m really sorry to say yes this really happened but in some of the situations it was worse because the PPE for aerosol generating procedures was locked away by managers because apparently ‘doctors were using it excessively’ so when it was needed for a cardiac arrest we couldn’t readily access it so starting cpr was delayed

It was a really difficult decision but at the same time we also had our own colleagues being admitted as patients on intensive care probably due to inadequate PPE

This also happened. Members of staff donated iPads to the hospital so that we could give people a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones

I'm sure I remember a HCP very very similar to Davina sadly dying. I'm hoping this is her story being told. I've watched all 3 so won't share anything else but it's been harrowing and this is just a snippet of what life was like for the staff, patients and family. My neighbour was in intensive care for weeks with Covid in the first wave. He's had to learn to walk again and has an oxygen tank now. I know of others who sadly didn't make it and their family couldn't be with them. I didn't clap on a Thursday. It seemed crass to me. Yes it was done as a thank you and moral boosting exercise but it felt wrong. Watching the government clips knowing what we know now is sickening. Those on the front line with no PPE, no clear directions is heartbreaking. I'm so glad we have been able to watch this now and show what a shambles it all was and if it wasn't for the hard working dedicated nhs staff who put their lives on the line it would have been so much worse x

Thank you to everyone who replied about the ppe and cardiac arrests. I honestly had no idea it was so bad at the time.

I had to go into hospital in May 2020 to get my miscarriage confirmed and had to go alone. I was told alone that the baby was gone and then put into a room myself and had to choose my options alone while trying to WhatsApp dh to let him know. In Scotland we weren't allowed a D&C we only had options of tablets or waiting. It was the day of partygate. I then had to wait till beginning of June before my baby passed from my body fully.

I'm not blaming the NHS. The nurses in epu were amazing and were so sorry that i was there alone. When I was pregnant again a few months later and my first scan was 5th Nov 2020 my dh was allowed in. But I still have the letter saying that my scan in the June I'd have to go alone.

The violin made me think of the violins on the titanic too

Yes they did

And yet hospital staff were finding the time to make choreographed tiktok dance routine videos, whilst peoples’ loved ones were saying goodbye forever on an iPad, or worse….not saying goodbye at all.

As @GreatBigBeautifulTommorow said, the real kick in the stomach was that whilst all this was happening, many people couldn’t go into hospital to be with their loved ones as they died, or attend the funerals of loved ones, or friends (me included), the bastards in Downing Street were having and attending parties 😡🤬

Tad surprised they're still keeping it so formal calling him mr williams