Hospital — Season 4
Series 4 follows six trusts across Liverpool, whose hospitals have a catchment area stretching beyond the city to north Wales, Cheshire and the Isle of Man.
About this season
Series 4 follows six trusts across Liverpool, whose hospitals have a catchment area stretching beyond the city to north Wales, Cheshire and the Isle of Man.
Episodes (6)
1. Episode 1
Aired 10 January 2019 • 55 min
It's peak time in one of the biggest emergency departments in the country, at 40 years old Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the heart of the city. The hospital is already near capacity and almost all beds are full.
2. Episode 2
Aired 17 January 2019 • 55 min
Following a patient who has been in intensive care for twelve months, and another who has been ready for rehab for the past two months. Neither can leave The Walton Centre as there are no facilities outside for them.
3. Episode 3
Aired 24 January 2019 • 55 min
A consultant recruitment crisis threatens care at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Doctors balance the care of a pregnant mother with cancer and a 33 hour old baby is rushed for surgery.
4. Episode 4
Aired 31 January 2019 • 55 min
Alder Hay closes it's critical car unit to new admissions. A five year old girl returns three times for her cancelled heart operation and surgery at the edge of technology saves the life of a baby.
5. Episode 5
Aired 7 February 2019 • 55 min
On an unusual day, three kidney transplants are due at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Meanwhile, at the woman's hospital, a mother pregnant with twins is faced with a heart wrenching decision.
6. Episode 6
Aired 14 February 2019 • 55 min
A teenager self funds cutting edge surgery to treat his cerebral palsy, and surgeons go to appeal to fund an 81 year old's heart surgery and new DNA tumour profiling to try to save a baby.