Doctors Face a Life-or-Death Delivery Decision

Three expectant mothers face childbirth during lockdown, where carefully made birth plans take unexpected turns. From an emotional rainbow baby birth and hypnobirthing to a dramatic C-section and an incredibly fast water birth. The families also confront breastfeeding struggles, neonatal care and a cleft palate diagnosis after their babies arrive. An emotional look at pregnancy, labour, delivery and new parenthood during an extraordinary time.

This dramatic episode goes inside a busy A&E department at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, following emergency nurses dealing with serious accidents and unusual traumas. Patients include a man who slices through his chin with an angle grinder, a woman injured in a 40 mph car crash, a 13-year-old with a severe open arm fracture, and a man who accidentally runs himself over with his own car.

From mysterious facial swelling and sudden hair loss to crippling headaches, doctors investigate patients searching for answers. A young girl faces severely enlarged tonsils, while others struggle with persistent coughing, dizziness, skin changes and unexplained symptoms. Doctors uncover possible allergic reactions, alopecia, sinusitis and other conditions, while deciding when further tests and specialist treatment are needed. An eye-opening episode following real GP appointments, medical mysteries, diagnoses and treatments as doctors work to discover what’s wrong.

An 81-year-old patient is rushed into A&E with ventricular tachycardia, a dangerously fast heart rhythm that could lead to cardiac arrest. Inside Northwick Park Hospital’s resus department, nurses and doctors race to stabilise his heart using emergency medication.With his ECG showing a potentially life-threatening rhythm, the team must act quickly before his condition deteriorates.

In this episode of GPs: Behind Closed Doors, doctors treat a patient with a dangerous infection after skin cancer surgery. The infection could spread through his arm, putting his health and vital hospital treatment at serious risk. The episode also features memory-loss fears, severe stomach pain, a sick baby and concerns about prostate cancer.

Doctors and surgeons race to save patients with devastating injuries, from a critically injured motorcyclist and a woman crushed by a falling tree to a marathon runner suffering life-threatening heatstroke. Every second counts as trauma teams battle to keep their patients alive through some of the hospital's most complex emergencies.