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Behind the scenes at the UK’s most remote hospital. There are serious concerns for a baby boy who arrives in A&E feeling very unwell.

September 2020
Behind the scenes at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain in Shetland.
Behind the scenes at the UK’s most remote hospital. In this episode, Dr Sam Ma has a chest pain mystery to solve when a ship’s electrician is flown to Shetland for emergency treatment.
Behind the scenes at the UK’s most remote hospital. In this episode, A&E staff have to juggle space when a patient arrives with mystery abdominal pains.
August 2020
Behind the scenes at the UK’s most remote hospital. In this episode, patients from Britain’s most remote community wait for a weather window to make the trip for important operations.
Behind the scenes at the UK’s most remote hospital. In this episode, a 95-year-old navy veteran is winched from the deck of a cruise ship.
Behind the scenes at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain in Shetland. In this episode, Nurse Chloe starts her first shift as a toddler arrives having difficulty breathing.
Behind the scenes at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain in Shetland. In this episode, an oil rig worker from Tyne and Wear is rushed to A&E with a suspected stroke.
Behind the scenes at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain in Shetland.
Behind the scenes at the UK's most remote hospital, the Gilbert Bain in Shetland.
February 2020
Patients from Britain’s most remote community – on Fair Isle, south of Shetland – wait for a break in the weather to make the trip for important operations.
A 95-year-old navy veteran is winched from the deck of a cruise ship, having lain undiscovered in his cabin for 11 hours.
January 2020
A patient makes a 450-mile round trip for a hospital appointment that takes just 20 minutes, and the emergency services join forces to raise money for an MRI scanner for Shetland.
December 2019
Occupational therapist Marc Beswick returns to long-term patient Summer, a four-year-old with a condition that means it's hard for her to move her arms and legs.
Jean, the community nurse on the little archipelago of Out Skerries, is out on her rounds seeing patients and delivering medicine as a one-woman health service.
A group of off-duty junior doctors and medical students take a trip to the island of Fetlar. With almost perpetual daylight, they are looking forward to a midnight swim.
Dental director Dr Brian Chittick operates on one of his own colleagues who has two troublesome wisdom teeth that need to be removed.
Chloe starts her first shift as a fully qualified nurse, and Emma takes three junior doctors for a rejuvenating dip in the bay near the hospital.
Wilma must take a break from her croft to undergo a serious operation to remove a kidney at the Gilbert Bain.
The coastguard rescue a six-foot-nine-inch Norwegian nicknamed Tiny from a ship bound to the Shetland Folk Festival, and junior doctor Freddie treats an Indonesian fisherman in A&E.
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