This ground-breaking new series tells the stories of remarkable life-saving operations at one of Britain’s biggest hospitals, filmed close up with extraordinary stories of surgical skill. With 73 operating theatres, the University Hospitals Birmingham is a centre of excellence with the country’s most skilled doctors changing and saving lives every day with complex and awe-inspiring procedures.
Each highly immersive episode follows surgeons and their patients minute by minute in theatre as they battle with the challenges of highly complex cases, the programmes provide an unrivalled perspective to split-second decision-making in a fight against the constant risk to life – revealing the cutting edge techniques of the expert surgeon’s craft as never before.