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A+E After Dark Series 7 Premieres With Night-Shift Access to UK A&E Departments

Fresh NHS England data reports a three-year peak in assaults, unwanted sexual behaviour, discrimination against staff.

Overview

  • The new season airs on 5 Star and streams on My5, and for the first time features Northern Ireland, with cameras inside Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital plus Newham Hospital and Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
  • The opening episode follows doctors treating four young men after a 70mph car crash in heavy rain in Belfast.
  • In Norwich, clinicians work to save both a stabbing victim and the attacker who arrive in critical condition at the same time.
  • Footage from Newham shows racist abuse directed at an A&E nurse as security deals with a patient live streaming inside the department.
  • New NHS England figures frame the series, showing 14.47% of staff suffered physical assault last year, nearly 31% of ambulance workers reported unwanted sexual behaviour, and 9% faced discrimination.