In this episode we meet two patients awaiting life-saving surgery at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv 'Hospital' goes behind the scenes to show the complexity of the NHS in action - including how staff are managing competing pressures and demands to ensure patients get the care they need. With real human drama, each episode shows complex decision making happening day in, day out in the NHS, where every action has a consequence. This film was first broadcast: 11 Jan 2017 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurStoriesChannel Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Welcome to Our Stories, your home on YouTube for inspiring human stories that give us an insight into real people and real lives. Our exciting range of fly-on-the-wall style documentaries and special access reality programmes will give you an inside look into the everyday lives of people; exploring what life is like for those working in education, healthcare, policing and many others! Content distributed by ITV Studios.
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This program effortlessly shows how amazing the staff of the NHS are but how badly the NHS is being run by the government (lack of funding, lack of beds, lack of increasingly the infrastructure even though the population keeps growing etc etc)
My joy at Simon recovering changed to deep sadness. RIP Simon, taken far too soon! Derpest condolences. Kate
Heartbroken for simon 💔 his wife was so overjoyed at him being cancer free only to lose him a few weeks later ,life can be so cruel 💔
The loss of Simon gutted me…he was so patient and so positive even though he was frightened. His wife so encouraging and supportive. I was happy they came out of it with a great prognosis only for things to go south. I’m so sorry that they lost such a light in their lives 😔😔😔😔
I am an ICU nurse, just reading through some comments relating to 'opening new hospitals/wards etc'... Sadly, we don't have enough trained nursing staff to accommodate the needs .. and this is inevitably going to get worse.. We are hemorrhaging staff due to understaffed wards, inevitable risk to patients, poor pay and hefty university fees...(in addition to the awful events during the pandemic... It's been awful). However, despite this.. i love my job, just wish there was a light at the end of the rainbow.
This is actually crazy they need way more funding for beds and such. Doctors shouldn’t have to worry about not having a bed for their patient
I am seeing a lot of comments about the woman from Norfolk. Jan is my Great Gran. She was blue-lighted to London because they are a specialist hospital for aoortic surgeries. We are absolutely gutted about Simon, and my Great Gran blames herself for his loss. We still have Great Gran. And I am so grateful for every worker that supported her in her recovery.
Nurse in Australia here. Our health system is in crisis as well. The last few years have been absolutely exhausting. So many of my colleagues have left healthcare all together because of the stress. It’s so hard when you put your health in jeopardy. The effect stress has on the body is mind blowing. How amazing would it be if we had money to build and staff new hospitals
Simon 😢 what a sweet and caring man, so unfair and sad.
Thanks to the brave patients for telling their stories......
Lack of everything...except dedication. Horrendous conditions to work in and difficult decisions to be made. Sooooo sorry for dear Simon..he was so positive in his recovery. Never expected that at the end. 😢
My Dad had the same as Simon. Same surgery. Less than 20% of people diagnosed survive to 5 years. This surgery is 10 hours long and to make it out of surgery is a huge thing. One month and 8 days after surgery my Dad passed away. He never left the ICU.
I cried when i found out Simon died 😭😭 what a wonderful man and equally amazing wife
Despite NHS challenges, we are so blessed to have public healthcare when many countries require insurance to be treated, or, have poor health care. Grateful for these heroes.
I am a RN in the US. When i started nursing in 1981, my average assignment was 5 patients. When i stopped working a few yrs ago due to medical problems, my assignment was usually anywhere from 10-14. No time for bathroom breaks much less lunch. I loved being a nurse, but just watching this brings back that stress and pit in your stomach that you just have to much to do to be able to provide the care your patients deserved.
My respect for these people has increased 10 times after watching this documentary.
In Alberta, Canada we are seeing similar issues. We also are really struggling with a mass exodus of primary care physicians from our province because of provincial mismanagement of the healthcare sector. Everytime I’ve ever been in hospital/emergency, I’m so grateful for the incredible nurses and doctors. The amount of pressure they are under is enormous, and I hope through documentaries like this one people can see how critical it is to properly fund and support healthcare.
Thrilled for the patients recoveries. Very sad about Simon. Went from happy for him, to sad, as for his wife.
Huge amount of tears shed while on the train watching this content as it’s totally relatable and the hospital situations have not improved, in fact it got even more battered with the COVID Pandemic. I care deeply for patients with cancer; this episode is like a spear of piercing reality. Kudos to Lesley who’s been doing such a difficult role. 🥺
may simon rest in peace