Great Ormond Street (TV series)
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Simon Gilchrist
| Great Ormond Street | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ricardo Pollack Simon Gilchrist |
| Composer | Miguel d'Oliveira |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Roger Graef |
| Production location | Great Ormond Street Hospital |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC Two |
| Release | 6 April 2010 – 12 August 2015 |
Great Ormond Street is a British television documentary series. It was first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 April 2010. Each episode focuses on a different department at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
A second series aired in 2012. A third series aired in summer 2015.
Great Ormond Street Hospital is a hospital specialising in the care of children in the district of Bloomsbury, Central London. It was founded in 1852 as the Hospital for Sick Children, making it the first hospital providing in-patient beds specifically for children in the English-speaking world. Today, the hospital still engages in pioneering work in children's medicine.
The hospital works with the UCL Institute of Child Health, and is the largest centre for research into childhood illness outside the United States and Canada, and a major international trainer of medical professionals.
This television series was filmed over the course of a year and features unprecedented access to health professionals as they make some of the hardest choices in medicine. In this series cameras followed Great Ormond Street Hospital's medical professionals into the meetings where they come face to face with the most difficult ethical dilemmas on a daily basis.
Episodes
The first series consisted of three one hour programmes and each episode focussed on a separate department within the hospital. The second series consists of six episodes, also one hour long. Series three (of three episodes) starts on 14 July 2015.
Series 1 (2010)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Original release date | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Pushing the Boundaries" | Ricardo Pollack | 6 April 2010 | |
| 2 | 2 | "Caught in the Machine" | Ricardo Pollack | 13 April 2010 | |
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The second episode focused on the work of the intensive care unit.[2] | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "An Imperfect Cure" | Simon Gilchrist | 20 April 2010 | |
Series 2 (2012)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Original release date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | "A Difficult Line" | Shona Thompson | 8 May 2012 | |
| 5 | 2 | "A Chance at Life" | Marina Parker | 15 May 2012 | |
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An intimate portrait of two surgeons in Great Ormond Street's General Surgery unit.[5] | |||||
| 6 | 3 | "Buying Time" | Rob Gill | 22 May 2012 | |
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This episode focuses on Great Ormond Street's heart transplant team.[6] | |||||
| 7 | 4 | "A Delicate Balance" | Jonathan Taylor | 29 May 2012 | |
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This episode follows the intensive care and respiratory doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital as they deal with difficult ethical decisions.[7] | |||||
| 8 | 5 | "Decisions For Life" | Rob Gill | 12 June 2012 | |
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This episode looks at the ethical dilemmas faced by the cardiothoracic team at Great Ormond Street Hospital | |||||
| 9 | 6 | "Experimental Surgery" | Simon Gilchrist | 19 June 2012 | |
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This episode looks at the experimental surgeries being performed at the leading children's hospital. | |||||
Series 3 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | "Fix My Genes" | Catey Sexton | 14 July 2015 |
| 11 | 2 | "Fight to Breathe" | Catey Sexton | 21 July 2015 |
| 12 | 3 | "Mend My Brain" | Dollan Cannell | 28 July 2015 |
