Editorial

BBC One Oxfordshire

Ambulance

Documentaries

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Documentary series taking a detailed look at ambulance services.

Life and death decisions on the frontline. From control rooms to the crews on the street, meet the people making sure every second counts.

Series 2

Simulcast of BBC One Wales in high definition. From 29/01/2013

BBC One Wales HD

Simulcast of network BBC One in high definition. From 03/11/2010

BBC One HD

Simulcast of BBC One Northern Ireland in high definition. From 24/10/2012

BBC One Northern Ireland HD

Simulcast of BBC One Scotland in high definition. From 14/01/2013

BBC One Scotland HD

BBC One region covering Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.

BBC One East Midlands

Formerly part of a wider BBC One South East region that included London and part of the South region. Separated from BBC One London 2001-09-03 following reorganisation of the South East region.

BBC One South East

BBC Northern Ireland region started on 19th April 1955 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One Northern Ireland.

BBC One Northern Ireland

The BBC South region started on 5th January 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South.

BBC One South

The BBC West region started on 1st September 1957 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One West.

BBC One West

BBC One Yorks & Lincs

BBC One Channel Islands

BBC One London

London

BBC One Cambridgeshire

The BBC North East & Cumbria region started in 1959 (tbc) as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One North East & Cumbria.

BBC One North East & Cumbria

The BBC East region started on 1st May 1959 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One East.

BBC One East

BBC One North West

BBC One West Midlands

BBC One Wales

Wales

The BBC South West region started on 20th April 1961 as part of the BBC Television Service, before becoming BBC One South West.

BBC One South West

BBC One Scotland

Scotland

BBC One Yorkshire

Ambulance: Series 2

Christopher Eccleston

Fraser Gibb

Jules Cornell

Kirsty Cunningham

Simon Ford

Bruce Fletcher

Jo Hughes

Amy Mellows

Jemma Chisnall

John Deol

Nick Leader

Matthew Cracknell

Dragonfly Film and Television

Ambulance: Series 2: Episode 4

ambulance_s02e04_140917_pp.jpg

Episode 4

BBC One - Ambulance, Series 2, Episode 4

A specialist team is dispatched to a serious car accident in Warwickshire.

Series providing a revealing insight into West Midlands Ambulance Service. A specialist team is dispatched to a serious accident where the driver requires a life-saving procedure.

The fourth episode follows the West Midlands Ambulance Service at the beginning of a busy Saturday night shift. There's been a nasty car accident in Warwickshire and the young driver has suffered a collapsed lung. She needs a life-saving procedure by the roadside which can only be done by a doctor. The Merit team, a specialist resource reserved for the most serious cases and with a doctor and specialist paramedic on board, is immediately dispatched.

In the busy control room, call assessors Rowena and Sally are both dealing with suicidal patients on the phone, while controller Louise and dispatcher Lucy urgently find available ambulances to send to them. 

As crewmates Jo and Suki take their patient to hospital, a car dramatically crashes in front of them and they find themselves with several more patients suddenly on their hands. Another three  ambulances are needed on scene but with all crews in the area already assigned to jobs and new calls still coming in, Lucy and Louise must prioritise those most in need.

By the time pubs and bars begin to close, alcohol seems to be the culprit of more and more of the calls coming in and in Birmingham city centre, a woman has had her finger bitten off at an  argument at a gig.

On Sunday, a man has dislocated his knee for the fourth time over the week and is in agony and stuck at the top of some tricky stairs. But as the weekend shift draws to an end, it's an elderly woman who lives on her own who the crew are most concerned about.

BBC One

Documentary series providing a revealing insight into West Midlands Ambulance Service.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Ambulance

Series 2

Episode 4

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC One Oxfordshire

About BBC One