Episode 1

Return of the documentary showing the realities faced by the NHS in unprecedented times, this time following six trusts across Liverpool, whose hospitals have a catchment area stretching beyond the city to north Wales, Cheshire and the Isle of Man. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital faces an emergency when two floors of the building are flooded, meaning critically ill patients have to be re-routed around the hospital to get to intensive care and staff divert incoming patients to other hospitals. Across the city at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, three-year-old Charlie is about to undergo high-risk surgery to remove a rare brain tumour.