S05:E02 - Luck of the Draw

Filmed around the clock over 45 days, the new fourteen-part series offers amazing access to one of Britain’s busiest A&E departments at King’s College Hospital in south London. 91 high definition cameras, the most ever used in a series of this kind, capture dramatic stories of love, life and death unfolding every day. Each programme focuses on people who were treated within the same 24-hour period, capturing the joy and heartache faced by patients and their families, as well as the hard work and professionalism of the A&E staff. The new series explores whole new areas of King’s A&E, meaning that even more aspects of stories can be shown. There are now cameras in the CT scanner room, where life and death diagnoses are made, Paediatrics, where children are treated and in the Resus room that has doubled in size. From victims of shocking random acts of violence on the streets and people making heart-breaking bedside decisions right through to children with peas stuck up their noses, 24 Hours in A&E is an intimate, powerful, sometimes comic – but ultimately heart-warming - portrait of modern Britain in all its variety.