Episodes
Dispatches Undercover Ambulance: NHS in Chaos (Channel 4 Thursday 9 March 2023)
Today Thursday 9 March 2023, there is a new episode of Dispatches.
Undercover Ambulance: NHS in Chaos A member of an ambulance team discreetly filmed his duties for Dispatches and Channel 4 all through the winter. This undercover footage shows him and his coworkers fighting to save lives despite growing ambulance wait times and overcrowded emergency rooms that force patients to be treated in the halls.
‘People aren’t aware of how bad it is’, he says. ‘We have patients who are needlessly coming to harm, and that is a fixable problem and I hope that by doing this, something can be done.’ The film’s undercover footage and supplemental case studies illustrate how the NHS’s poor handling of emergency calls leads to needless pain and death.
Adrian Boyle, the President of the Royal College of Medicine, says the delays in recent months have caused many hundreds of deaths: ‘most likely three to 500 excess deaths each week. It’s much worse this winter than any winter beforehand. It’s on a completely different scale of poor performance.’
Airdate: Thursday 9 March 2023 at 21:00 on Channel 4
Season 2023 Episode 2
Dispatches is the British TV current affairs documentary series on Channel 4, first transmitted in 1987. The programme covers issues about British society, politics, health,religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often features a mole inside organisations under journalistic investigation.
Featured image credit: Channel 4
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