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Dispatches: Undercover Ambulance: NHS in Chaos - Dispatches

Series 576, episode 0

Directed by (unconfirmed)
Emily Keen

Throughout this winter a member of an ambulance crew has secretly filmed his daily work. The covert film vividly records him and his colleagues struggling to save lives despite lengthening ambulance delays, and overwhelmed A&E departments that stack patients in corridors without the hospital medical staff available to care for them. The footage and additional case studies uncovered by this programme's makers illustrate how the NHS's apparent failure to properly deal with emergency calls is causing suffering, long-term harm and possibly needless death