BBC Casualty: Activate the major haemorrhage protocol

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It's not 1994, we don't get to see the accidents anymore 😂

True. Sorry evidently having a moment!!!

Though this had even less than usual - not even any paramedic preamble!

I miss those days 😭

It's just a matter of time before Flynn shags the councillor, isn't it?

It seems like it

Honestly I'm surprised he didn't do it in the corridor in front of the photographer! It would have saved weeks of preamble.

Casualty seems really light at the moment. No real storylines going on. They've shown Indie sleeping rough but nothing more.

I don't care about Flynn, no way would a local councillor go to that much effort or have that much sway. MP maybe but not a councillor. And to give a new character their own story block just seems odd when you don't know them.

It all just feels like the writers have given up.

What about Stevie’s story line?
Rida?

What a depressing episode. Why didn’t Stevie get allocated a gynae surgeon?

Wow this is very violent and disturbing for Casualty as well

Someone obviously enjoys directing riots as we've had a few recently.

I thought Indie excused herself because the homeless man would recognise her. What was the explanation of her returning with size 12 trainers? How was she supposed to know what sizes he took?

I agree it was quite a violent episode but I did notice it was another episode of Flynn and the councillor bonding 🙄

I hope Stevie is going to be okay. I was starting to think it had all been forgotten about as it seems a long time since she went to see the consultant(?). It was nice seeing Siobhan supporting her though rather than useless Faith.

Rida's attitude to Nicole surprised me today. I suppose we can expect a nasty episode for her when the "I'm different, it won't happen to me" facade drops. I know it's different but considering she knows what Cam went through you'd think she wouldn't be that easily persuaded against the red flag warnings.

I've noticed recently there has been episodes where those ill and injured you never know what happened to them. This episode the police officer who suffered serious burns last week there was a guy who was injured and again didn't know how or then the outcome?

That was a shock of an episode. To think two girls died because they shoplifted tampons. I doubt that would ever happen. I worked as a Saturday person in Woolworths as a teenager in the late 70s and shoplifters of certain products were always treated with respect.

No way would that riot have escalated like that. It's so not the same as the riots last summer.

Stevie should have asked for an experienced gynecologist in possible cancer. She certainly would have been processed quickly, no biopsy (!) - wtaf - and quickly seen to. It wasn't an emergency. Leaving blood stained products in a staff toilet?

The only sane voice was Dylan.

The whole way it's been shot changed. It's got a "shakey" camera shooting going on (mostly side to side).

Least there's light now!!

I don't know why I'm expecting social realism from Casualty to be honest but I think I'm going to have to stop watching. The storylines are increasingly absolute bollocks. Rida a nurse qualified about 3 years ago is now doing all the final consent forms etc for the patients without so much as competing a week's induction of how surgical nursing is different. . We also appear to have a highly respected surgeon who is simultaneously a Bariatric specialist and able to treat ovarian cysts and also trauma surgery. That's even before the copper going back out on duty to a riot that's happening during to children dying after she chased them. I think I'm going to have to give up on it. The plots are almost none existent at this stage, it doesn't seem to know what it is anymore

@HobnobsChoice spot on!

So the gastric band lady didn’t get her op

her mum was a nightmare !!

glsd Stevie will be ok now her cyst is sorted and even siobhan was nice to her

the riots came out of hand really quickly

poor girls. Dying as stealing Tampax 😢

and police lady scarred for life now

I don’t know that Stevie’s cyst is sorted - we only saw her being wheeled in to surgery! Who knows what will happen next with that creepy surgeon on the case…

I thought it was a good episode actually: lots going on and barely any (none at all?) Faith moments which is always a huge plus point for me as she is such an awful character. Also very little Jodie - glad she’s on the back burner for a while after such a long focus on her in the last box set. I did love Dylan reminding Flynn that he wasn’t in a war zone now because you can see why the evening might have given Flynn flashbacks.

Like the way they’re slowly building up the relationship with the councillor rather than having them instantly leap into bed with each other.

Having rewatched loads of Classic Casualty recently, other than fewer location shoots, I’d say the level of realism is not really much different to 20-odd years ago.

I was thinking the same thing. Every time someone says it's getting silly now I think but it has been for decades.

There’s a guy I used to see on Twitter back in the day, I think a media student of some sort, who used to get quite irate at any suggestion that Holby City did NOT represent the reality of the NHS.

I'm sure it does reflect some aspects well some of the time (I always love spotting randoms waiting to be called it fancy dress or with intriguing bandages) but no hospital could match the staff death rate, the consultants leaving with 3.5 minutes notice, the lack of any professional standards/HR policy, the plot to do surgery on someone's dog (I think that was Holby not Casualty) are and always were totally unrealistic. But I love it for all its total lack of reality.

I was watching early episodes of ER - it also appears to have have had similar HR policies and death rate (possibly higher.)

I was also quite taken with the amount of panicking and running into things and knocking them over the staff did - along with degloving and degowning and just chucking them on the ground..Casualty hasnt quite done that lackadaisical heath and safety yet - Stevie dropping her blooded tissue aside.