Hospital

David Grant is only one of two head and neck cancer surgeons at the Nottingham Trust.

Staff at London’s Royal Free Trust battle Covid-19. With beds in the hospital rapidly filling with Covid-positive patients, doctors are redeployed and ICU doubles its capacity.

Following staff and patients at Royal Free London. As the pandemic approaches its peak, ten per cent of the workforce are sick or self-isolating, and it is a challenge to provide safe staffing levels.

In March 2020, as the country entered lockdown, Hospital revealed the frontline of medicine at the Royal Free London. Now, two years on, we revisit the Trust as it implements its recovery programme and does its part to tackle the longest waiting lists in the NHS's history. Filmed during the winter of 2022, we follow the emotional journeys of the patients starting to receive their long-awaited surgeries and the staff who treat them as the Trust grapples with the challenge of recovering from the impact of the last two years.