24 Hours in A&E returns to St George’s Hospital
The popular TV series 24 Hours in A&E is returning to St George’s Hospital.
The award-winning Channel 4 show – from production company The Garden, part of ITV Studios – provides a fly-on-the-wall look at patients who come through the Emergency Department, as well as the dedicated and talented teams who treat them.
After hosting the series for seven years from 2014 and spanning over 200 episodes, St George’s said farewell to the show in 2021 as it relocated to Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham.
Now, viewers will once again see the life-saving work at St George’s, which was recently fitted with 136 cameras, 30k metres of cable and 150 microphones – to capture daily life in one of the capital’s busiest Emergency Departments, where over 400 patients attend every day.
Kate Slemeck, Managing Director for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “I’m incredibly proud to bring 24 Hours in A&E back to St George’s, to showcase the unwavering work of our Emergency Department colleagues and the teams who work with them – from minor injuries to major traumas and everything in-between.
“A lot has changed since the last time the series was filmed here, including increased demand for our services – but the main thing viewers will take away is the expert care, compassion and kindness our patients receive every day.”
Gabe Jones, Clinical Director and Consultant for Emergency Medicine and Major Trauma at St George’s, said: “I’m excited to show viewers our brilliant Emergency Department, which continues to deliver excellent care in the most challenging circumstances.
“I’m proud of my exceptional colleagues for the life-saving work they will continue to do long after the cameras have stopped rolling, and am grateful to our patients for allowing us to document their most vulnerable moments. We thank the staff at Queen Medical Centre in Nottingham for showing the NHS at its best, and are very pleased to welcome the series back to St George’s.”
Manjeet Shemar, Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), said: “We are so proud to have been the home to 24 Hours in A&E for so long, bringing the show into the heart of our Nottingham community and sharing the incredible stories of our staff and patients.
“The series gives the public the chance to see what it is like working in a busy emergency department like QMC, the complexities of it and the kind of things that staff see and work on day in and day out. It really is quite remarkable. I am so thankful that the series came to QMC, and even more so to those colleagues who were involved.
“We’re excited for our colleagues over at St George’s to have the series return to them, and hope that the series will make a return to QMC one day in the future too.”
Spencer Kelly, Director of Factual, The Garden, said: “The privilege of being invited to film the brilliant work of our NHS staff and the brave patients it cares for, never wears thin.
“We are extremely grateful to everyone at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham for allowing us to tell their story over the past few years and delighted to be welcomed back to St George’s for this exciting new chapter.”
Rita Daniels, Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 said: “We’re grateful to Nottingham University Hospitals for the powerful and moving stories we’ve been privileged to film during our time there and the compassion and resilience shown by staff and patients alike has made a lasting impact on the series.
“As 24 Hours in A&E returns to St George’s Hospital in London – at the heart of the UK’s most populated city – we look forward to continuing to tell the extraordinary stories that unfold every day in our NHS.”
A broadcast date for the new St George’s episodes is to be confirmed.
Notes to editors
- 24 Hours in A&E is in its 15th year, with more than 300 episodes broadcast
- St George’s Hospital is one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area
- Over 10,000 staff work for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- From 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, over 152,000 people come to our Emergency Department for treatment
- St George’s Hospital is part of St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group (gesh) – a group of hospitals and community services in South West London and Surrey, with 17,000 staff caring for a population of four-million. It comprises St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
