Hospital

Ever-increasing patient numbers mean that there are not enough beds for everyone and hundreds of elective operations are cancelled.

Head and neck surgeon David Grant returns to find his surgical list has snowballed.

The advice from the NHS to cancel all non-urgent operations is taking a heavy toll at Nottingham Hospital.

Lack of intensive care beds for children is becoming a nationwide problem. Four-year-old Esme is rushed to Queen's Medical Centre from Hull - 90 miles away.

Doctors decide if 93-year-old Ray, who has dementia, is well enough to leave hospital - and how.

The critical care unit at Nottingham University Hospitals takes care of the Trust's sickest patients. Even with 58 beds, on most days it is completely full.