New DVD. Running time: 5 h 40 min. Age rating: 16 Subtitles: no / not known
All four episodes of the 1980s drama starring Vivienne Ritchie as Jessie Marvill, a newly-qualified doctor who goes to work at an NHS hospital. As her training takes her through the hospital´s various departments, Jessie´s idealistic aspirations suffer as she finds herself dealing with the problems of NHS cuts and an institutional, ego-driven culture in which patients have been dehumanised, botched operations are routinely covered up, wards are sold off and the interests of pharmaceutical companies are paramount. The episodes are: ´Acute´, ´Decline´, ´Chronic´ and ´Collapse´