Series 5

Season 5 · 2020 · 8 episodes

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.

1Episode 1On Merseyside, operating theatres shut but emergencies continue to arrive as patients are caught up in an extraordinary hospital move.
2Episode 2In 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.
3Episode 3Heart 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.
4Episode 4As 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.
5Episode 5With 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.
6Episode 6In 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.
7Episode 7Alder 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.
8Episode 8The 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.

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