Hospital - Season 5

Hospital - Season 5

Season 5

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.
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Episodes8
DatesFeb 13, 2020 - May 12, 2020
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Episodes

Episode 1
Season 5Episode 160 min

Episode 1

The city's new state-of-the-art hospital remains unfinished, three years after it was due to open, so two of the biggest hospital trusts are planning an ambitious merger. But this means that hundreds of patients and staff have to be transported across the city, while all the operating theatres bar one are closed.

Feb 13, 2020
Episode 2
Season 5Episode 260 min

Episode 2

At Aintree Hospital's major trauma centre, a 15-strong team try to save the life of a young man who has arrived by emergency helicopter. He has been stabbed in the chest - one of three stabbings to arrive during the day. Across the city at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, staff deal with a homeless man who has been returning for at least 18 years. He is always treated with patience and dignity and given somewhere to sleep his alcohol or substance misuse. However, his increasingly aggressive behaviour leads to him being issued with an ultimatum.

Feb 20, 2020
Episode 3
Season 5Episode 360 min

Episode 3

Eighty-one-year-old Joe has been left with a hole in his heart after suffering a heart attack, and face a complex procedure that carries a high-mortality rate. Ellie, 28, is one of the growing population of adults with congenital heart disease, who had devices fitted into their hearts as children, and need further procedures as they get older. Already cancelled twice before, she hopes that this time her operation to replace her pulmonary valve with keyhole surgery will go ahead, so she can begin to plan her wedding to Jade.

Feb 27, 2020
Episode 4
Season 5Episode 460 min

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.
Mar 5, 2020
Episode 5
Season 5Episode 560 min

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.
Mar 12, 2020
Episode 6
Season 5Episode 660 min

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.
Mar 19, 2020
Episode 7
Season 5Episode 760 min

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.
Mar 26, 2020
Episode 8
Season 5Episode 860 min

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.
Apr 2, 2020

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