Season 1
5 episodes
44 min. per episode
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Amid life-and-death emergencies, dedicated medics confront their fears while wrestling with personal demons in a relentless pursuit of hope.
Episodes
The Merit Team - a highly skilled unit of doctors and paramedics rush to the aid of a man hit by a lorry on the M6. A paramedic looks after a young patient in extreme pain.
Paramedic Ste Hill rushes to the scene of an accident in which a motorcyclist has collided with an electricity box on the pavement.
The BASICS team go to treat two-year-old Ashanti who has suffered a fit. Paramedic Jon Cobb helps a woman get a successful diagnosis for her mystery pain. A motorcycle has collided with a car.
The MERIT team come to the aid of a man who has been stabbed and hit with a sledgehammer. Cameron McVittie goes to a factory to attend to a man who has fallen from a great height.
Ste Hill is called to a factory where a man's anxiety attack has put him in danger. Paramedic Mike Duggan attends to a homeless man who has fallen and suffered a massive cut to his head.
The series provides a rare insight into the minute-by-minute pressures faced when on the NHS front line. Camera crews follow paramedics and doctors of the West Midlands Ambulance Service, over a six-month period. The mobile medics tackle everything from street stabbings, motorcycle accidents and suspected heart attacks.