Hospital: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Filmed over six weeks during the past three months, Hospital is the story of the NHS in unprecedented times.

Edited and broadcast within weeks of filming, this timely six part series for BBC Two will capture the day-to-day realities facing the NHS right now.

With exceptional access to one of the UK's biggest and busiest NHS Trusts, Hospital will bring audiences intensely close to the issues and challenges that continually dominate the headlines.

Each episode will show with exceptional candour the ever-increasing demands on the NHS's services, from intricate and morally complex medical ethics to health tourism; from A&E overcrowding to cancelled operations.

Shown from multiple perspectives and for the first time, the audience will see the extraordinary dilemmas and decision-making which happen every day for the consultants, surgeons and bed managers, all of which have profound consequences for patients and treatments.

Crews shot across five hospitals in Imperial College Healthcare Trust London to understand the complex decision making and the impact each one can have, following the key decision makers as they attempt to care for nearly 20,000 people every week. But standing in their way are limited resources, an increasing number of emergency patients and a clock that never stops ticking. Produced in partnership with The Open University.

Series details

• Title: Hospital
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Medical
• Premiere date: 2017-01-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-03-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC Two
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 24031
• IMDb ID: tt6400730
• TVDB ID: 322511

Cast and credited roles

• Miranda Raison — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2017-01-11; final listed air date 2017-02-15; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2017-06-20; final listed air date 2017-07-11; episode order: 4.
• Season 3: premiered 2018-03-26; final listed air date 2018-05-01; episode order: 6.
• Season 4: premiered 2019-01-10; final listed air date 2019-02-14; episode order: 6.
• Season 5: premiered 2020-02-13; final listed air date 2020-05-12; episode order: 8.
• Season 6: premiered 2020-11-09; final listed air date 2020-12-14; episode order: 6.
• Season 7: premiered 2021-05-11; final listed air date 2022-03-24; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Hospital on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.