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Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day

Amy Flanagan

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Zac Beattie

Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day: Episode 5

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Episode 5

BBC Two - Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day, Episode 5

A patient is taken out to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community.

A day in the life of the NHS. Featuring two women whose brain surgery has a dramatic and immediate impact, and health secretary Jeremy Hunt given a tour of a new cancer centre.

Agnes and Rose are in hospital in London to have brain surgery to help control their tremors, which has a dramatic and immediate impact. In Blackpool, Terry, a patient in a psychiatric unit, is taken on a day trip to the zoo to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community. We meet some of the 130 chemotherapy patients that are treated at a Manchester Cancer Unit on any one day and follow Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, just six weeks into the job, being given a tour of a new cancer centre in London. 

The film shows the challenge of taking care of people with long-term conditions, a job only likely to get tougher with an ageing population.

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Capturing a single day in the NHS, filmed by 100 camera crews spread across the country.

Capturing a single day in the NHS, filmed by 100 camera crews spread across the country. In just this one day, 1300 people will die, 2000 will be born and 1.5 million will be treated.

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