Keeping Britain Alive

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Keeping Britain Alive

A day in the life of the NHS. Looking at the UK's single biggest killer, heart disease.

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2013
Taking a look at the NHS beyond the hospital environment.
A look at the increasing demands on the NHS and the very real costs of those demands.
A patient is taken out to help assess whether he's well enough to return to the community.
The story of a tetraplegic coming to terms with a changed relationship with his daughter.
A top surgeon performs a high risk brain operation while the patient is still awake.
Anxious parents await news from a critical scan and an ex-boxing champ battles his demons.
Looking at what the NHS does in just one day to ask what is expected of it in the future.
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