Children's Hospital (1993)

The documentary series returns for a new ten-part series, this time from Birmingham children's hospital. This week a nine-year-old is rushed in by ambulance after being knocked off his bike by a car, a five-year-old undergoes a nose and palate operation, and a seven-year-old receives unusual treatment for a pound coin stuck in his throat. Also, a ten-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis arrives from Liverpool to review the prospect of a liver transplant.

A premature baby has to be resuscitated when he stops breathing, a 12-year-old with high blood pressure has an operation to remove a stomach tumour, and a ten-year-old girl undergoes the final tests to determine the necessity of a liver transplant.

A profoundly deaf ten-year-old who relies on lip-reading is assessed to discover whether she is suitable to receive an implant which could introduce her to a new world of sound. A nine-year-old boy has damaged his leg in an accident, but may have a more complex injury than was first believed, while a 12-year-old girl must have steroid injections to treat a flare-up in her arthritis, despite the risk to her heart.

Nurse Anita Treharne has a busy day in casualty, where four-year-old Skye is brought in after a dog bites her lip and five-year-old Charlie needs treatment for a badly cut hand. Plus staff find out why a boy's heart is beating so fast and whether a hearing device has worked for a profoundly deaf girl.

There's high drama as six-year-old Adele is flown in from Belfast. She's come for an unprecedented triple-transplant, an operation which offers her release from the tubes by which she has to be fed. But first she has to be well enough for such major surgery. And a nine-year-old has high hopes that a hip operation will let him play football again.

As six-year-old Adele from Belfast awaits her ground-breaking triple-transplant operation, news arrives that donor organs have become available. Meanwhile Dr Tina Newton comes to the rescue of a miserable, cough-stricken Steven, and four-year-old Yasmin has a penny stuck in her gullet.

Chatty eight-year-old Aaron shows great courage in his battle against cancer. Tomboy Clare has fallen off a climbing frame at school. A three-week-old baby who isn't feeding properly is rushed in, breathless. And seven-year-old Adele is recovering from her extraordinary 14-hour triple-transplant operation.

The casualty department is kept busy treating five-year-old Jake , who has a rubber wedged firmly up his nose, and seven-year-old Steven , who has cut his foot while playing in a public fountain. Six-week-old Jessica is rushed in for an emergency operation because she cannot feed or breathe properly. Eight-year-old cancer patient Aaron is well enough to go home, once he starts eating properly again, but two-year-old Ellie , who has had surgery on a cancerous brain tumour, must return to hospital because of an infection.

A five-month-old baby girl causes a surprise for the surgeon who initially suspects she has a hernia. Ten-year-old Laura is rushed in by ambulance from Liverpool for a liver transplant. Meanwhile eight-year-old Aaron waits to go home after a five-month stay in hospital.

This week the hospital faces a major operation of its own when it moves to new premises three miles away and 120 patients and 30,000 pieces of equipment all have to be moved. Plus the two-day-old baby who probably needs surgery to feed properly, a ten-year-old is in pain from sickle-cell anaemia and young Laura returns after having a life-saving liver transplant.