Dispatches: Secret NHS Diaries

Synopsis: The NHS is there to make our final days as dignified and pain-free as possible. But as a devastating health service ombudsman report has shown, the reality can be very different. For the first time, Dispatches has given three people cameras to film the last weeks of their lives, at home, in a care home, and in hospital. Their experiences provide a unique insight into the gap between what we hope for compared with the painful reality of dying.
Series: Dispatches, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2011
Notes: Broadcast on C4 on 28/2/2011
Subjects: Medical sciences; Social welfare
Keywords: health care; National Health Service; terminal illness; patient care

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Notes: Hardcash Productions, founded by David Henshaw, is an independpent production company specialising in investigative and undercover documentary films, many of them broadcast in the Dispatches series on Channel 4. Recent programmes have studied NHS terminal care, hate and violence in Muslim schools in the UK, and abuse by employers of illegal domestic workers. The company has also built a reputation for penetrating some of the most hostile territories in the world - North Korea. Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Saudi Arabia. Sale on video or DVD.

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