3-part series on Great Ormond Street

30 March 2010 - 21.00

This intimate and moving observational series is truly ground breaking.  With unique access to the private deliberations of medical teams and patients, it follows the life and death decision making of some of the world’s top teams of consultants at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Children only come here with complex medical challenges that other hospitals have failed to solve. That means the staff at Great Ormond Street work at the frontiers of medical knowledge and research, often developing treatments that have never been tried before.

The series covers painfully honest exchanges between medical experts, and then the children’s families, as they weigh the balance between the pain of their patients, the likely quality of life if the interventions succeed, and the longer term value of the discovery of potentially life saving new techniques.

 3-part series starts 30th March 2010, 21.00hrs on  BBC 2