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Secret Life of the Hospital Bed

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Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Documentary series following patients who enter hospitals across the country.

Documentary series using fixed-rig cameras to tell the story of patients who enter hospitals across the country.

Secret Life of the Hospital Bed: Series 1 Reversions

Anouk Curry

Kerry Brierley

Crackit North

Secret Life of the Hospital Bed: Series 1 Reversions: Episode 5

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Episode 5

Series 1 Reversions

BBC One - Secret Life of the Hospital Bed, Series 1 Reversions, Episode 5

A man arrives at hospital in Birmingham for a biopsy.

Documentary series telling the story of patients who enter hospitals across the country. A man arrives at hospital in Birmingham for a biopsy.

At Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital, 73-year-old Peter arrives for a biopsy because doctors are worried that his prostate cancer may have spread to his bladder.

At the Great North's Children's Hospital, six-month-old Ehtesham has been rushed in by ambulance after his mum and grandparents noticed a serious rash all over his body.

Over at the A&E Department in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, 38-year-old Joanne has been rushed into hospital by ambulance having been involved in a car crash where she swerved to avoid a ladder that flew off the roof of a van in front of her. The assessment suites are all occupied, so paramedics transfer her to A&E bed nine in the corridor - doctors are worried that she may have seriously injured her back. Her dad was a passenger in the car and is being brought into A&E in a separate ambulance, and Joanne is concerned that he was thrown into the windscreen.

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Series following patients who enter hospitals across the country. Revised repeats.

Documentary series using fixed-rig cameras to tell the story of patients who enter hospitals across the country. Contains revised repeats.

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