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Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day

Amy Flanagan

Magnus Temple

Zac Beattie

Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day: Episode 8

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Episode 8

BBC Two - Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS in a Day, Episode 8

A day in the life of the NHS. Looking at the UK's single biggest killer, heart disease.

A day in the life of the NHS. Looking at the UK's single biggest killer, heart disease. In Manchester, a specialist team races to treat a steady stream of heart attack victims.

This episode takes a look at the country's single biggest killer, heart disease. Every day 282 people will have a heart attack and 200 will die. In Manchester, a specialist team race to treat a steady stream of heart attack victims, some of whom have a 20 year history of heart disease. In Liverpool six-month-old Kyran undergoes open heart surgery to correct a defect first detected in the womb and in Yorkshire, air ambulance paramedics attempt to resuscitate an 80-year-old mechanic who has collapsed while working on a neighbour's car.

Despite improvements in treatment, our increasingly sedentary lifestyle combined with an ageing population will only add to the pressure on the NHS, a dilemma playing out across the whole organisation as demands increase and the money to pay for it doesn't.

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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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