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Three Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ crews followed eight members of staff around the clock for nine months in an attempt to capture a side of the NHS rarely seen.

From the maternity ward to the emergency room no area of the Leytonstone hospital was off-limits.

Entitled 'The People's Hospital' the first of the eight-part series will be screened on Wednesday at 8.30pm with subsequent episodes to be aired on Thursdays.

Producers of the programme said they chose Whipps Cross for the hospitals apparent "caring, community feel" and "friendly atmosphere".

Series producer Jacqui Wilson said: "The main aim of the series is to provide an uplifting, realistic insight for our family viewers into the daily working lives of nurses and midwives at a busy district general hospital.

"The programme shows what an average day is like in the field for staff as they treat and care for patients. It also provides the opportunity for selected nurses and midwives to talk about why they chose their profession."

Head of Nursing, Angela Odle.

Head of Nursing Angela Odle, who features in the series, said: "I enjoyed every minute of it. I wanted to show to the public all the elements of the job. I think the programme will show what nurses actually do."

Assistant director of communications at the Trust, Emma Kearney, said: "Whipps Cross has come through a significant period of change and financial turbulence so agreeing to take part in a prime time documentary was not an automatic yes.

"Our nurses and midwives are the life blood of the organisation and work hard to ensure that we deliver good care to our local community. On balance, we thought it was worth taking the risk to allow the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to give the wider public the chance to see this.

"Whipps is a busy major acute hospital serving a diverse population and having had a chance to see the footage, the balance between the challenges we face and the care we provide does come across."

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