Ambulance

8.0

2016•1h

Insight into the London, West Midlands and North West of England ambulance services, from the highly-pressurised control room to the crews on the streets. Ambulance provides an honest 360-degree snapshot of the daily dilemmas and pressures.

Production

Trailers & Videos

Ambulance: a BBC one documentary

Seasons

3 Episodes • Premiered 2016

Insight into the London Ambulance Service, providing a snapshot of the daily pressures.

1. The Day Shift

Multiple stabbings, suicide attempts, a double shooting and an explosion at a flat flood the control centre of the London Ambulance Service with emergency calls threatening to overwhelm the service.

2. The Night Shift

We join the staff in the nerve-centre control room on the night shift. Amongst the thousands of calls they receive, they also have to contend with hoaxers, frequent callers and run-away patients.

3. The Weekend Shift

The staff of the London Ambulance Service prepare for another busy weekend. Amidst the call-outs to drunken fights, drug overdoses and stabbings there are also five women going into labour and a miscarriage to cope with.