The Secret Life of the Hospital Bed

Episode 13 (1x13)

Air date: Nov 30, 2016

Documentary series following patients who enter hospitals across Britain. At the A&E Department in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary, a trauma call has come in. Eighteen-year-old George is rushed in by ambulance with suspected meningitis and an extremely high heart rate. At the Great North Children's Hospital in Newcastle, 13-year-old Harvey has been shown to bed 27. He was playing badminton at school and after landing at a funny angle on his right leg, he felt his knee lock and hasn't been able to bend his leg again. In Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital Day Surgery Unit, 51-year-old Ann-Marie has come to have a new type of injection to treat her rare blood disease. Having had the condition since she was a baby she is no stranger to hospitals, as she had her first operation when she was only six weeks old.