Review: BBC s Hospital will have you crying in despair and screaming with rage
Most days, the biggest decision I have to make is what to have for tea, and after watching Hospital (BBC2, Tues, 9pm), I’m grateful my choices don’t get any more life and death than fish fingers or chicken dippers.
Friday, 14th May 2021, 5:00 pm
Filmed at the hospital in Coventry where the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was delivered to a member of the public, this was raw, uncompromising television.
Presented as a series of literal life and death dilemmas, it was shocking to see the widespread toll of coronavirus on our
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There goes the no-claims bonus. As Covid patient David was wheeled off to intensive care in Hospital (BBC2), a cheery nurse joked his bed was being steered by women drivers.
Moments later, they bumped into the door. Who left that there?
It was a moment of rare levity as this observational documentary returned, charting the pressures on University Hospital Coventry s wards during lockdown this year, where surgeons were restricted to just two major operations a day.
That meant impossible decisions for staff, who had to choose which patients could not be saved.
One administrator was filmed as he tried to book the last remaining heart op for the following day.
BBC Two s Hospital returns tonight from inside University Hospital Coventry
Life on the frontline at Coventry s hospital will open the new series of BBC Two s Hospital
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University Hospital in Coventry
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The seventh series of Hospital returns to our screens tonight (Tuesday) from inside University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire.
The nurse who gave the world s first Covid-19 vaccination has proposed that a National Thank You Day should take place on July 4.
May Parsons inoculated 90-year-old Margaret Keenan with the first Pfizer/BioNTech jab at University Hospital Coventry on December 8.
Ms Parsons, a matron at the hospital, said she thought we just do not say thank you enough .
May Parsons, the nurse who gave the world s first Covid-19 vaccination to 90-year-old Margaret Keenan (pictured together), has proposed that a National Thank You Day should take place on July 4
Ms Parsons, a matron at University Hospital Coventry, said she thought we just do not say thank you enough
Boris Johnson announcement live updates on lockdown roadmap
The latest as restrictions ease on May 17
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the next stage of lockdown easing in England will go ahead as planned, with measures to take effect in a week.
Step three of the roadmap out of lockdown will begin from May 17 after the Government said the latest data confirms its four tests for easing Covid-19 restrictions have been met.
Pubs and restaurants can serve people inside from next Monday, with galleries, theatres, cinemas and soft play areas also able to reopen.