HOSPITAL CRISIS: FLU EPIDEMIC:

HOSPITAL CRISIS: FLU EPIDEMIC:; ITN ENGLAND: Leeds: St James's Hospital: Ext SPEEDED UP SEQUENCE Ambulances arriving at entrance and patients taken out Int Nursing staff discussing one admission SOT SPEEDED UP SEQUENCE Staff rushing around working Nurse pushing monitor along corridor PAN Medical staff treating young boy in resuscitation room (10secs) Elderly man on stretcher trolley pushed into cubicle (died on way to hospital) Staff attending to pregnant woman who has collapsed in waiting room Doctor talking on phone then tells staff another emergency patient is expected SOT Ext Ambulancemen pushing teenage girl on stretcher trolley into hospital PULL OUT Int Ambulanceman pushes girl on trolley to space in corridor CS Ambulanceman talking to nurse MS Nurse attending to girl CMS Hand taking girl's pulse Sheila Hunt (Nursing Manager) interview SOT - This is busiest I have ever known hospital/ it's running at capacity and doesn't take much to tilt it over the edge CMS Board on wall stating that waiting time for standard patients is 3 hours from booking in GV Patients in waiting room Porter turning out group of boys who are messing around in children's room TGV Staff chatting in corridor as patient moved on trolley Dr Ros Roden (Consultant) interview SOT - Its going to get worse and worse/ waiting list will go up and emergency patients will cease to get good deal they should get Ambulanceman carrying small boy (who has had epileptic fit) into hospital and along into emergency resuscitation room (2 shots) CMS Dr Roden and other staff looking at boy Boy's leg manipulated Dr Roden talking to boy's mother CMS Male doctor examining boy GV Dr Roden with boy's mother while nursing team attend to boy CMS Nurse Boy's heartbeat checked PULL OUT to worried parents beside CMS Clasped hands of parents ...