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series hosted by
Yvette Fielding
Yvette Paula Fielding (born 23 September 1968) is an English television presenter, producer and actress. She became the youngest presenter on '' Blue Peter'' aged 18, and one of her episodes was subsequently voted the "Favourite ''Blue Peter'' mo ...
,
Chris Serle
Christopher Richard Serle (born 13 July 1943 in Bristol, England) is a former BBC TV presenter, reporter and actor.
Biography
Serle was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied modern languages. He appeared a ...
and
Heather Mills
Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) is an English former model, businesswoman and activist.
Mills first came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was involved in a traffic collision with a police motorcycle in London. T ...
.
Based at
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton General Hospital (SGH) is a large teaching hospital in Southampton, Hampshire, England run by University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital was founded in 1900 as the Southampton Union Infirmary in Shi ...
,
the programme tracked the progress of selected patients, including outpatients, at the hospital. The series was broadcast live
every weekday on
BBC One
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, in a
daytime
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slot. 61 episodes of the programme were aired in total; 58 of them in 1998
(from April to June), and the other three in 2002. The original director of the series was Dave Heather.
As well as the presenting team tracking patients and staff in the hospital, the programme also featured Heather Mills abseiling down the side of the hospital and demonstrating various uses for her prosthesis.
The show also featured occasional celebrity guest appearances, including a visit from endurance expert
Mike Stroud.
The programme was subsequently renamed ''
City Hospital'', continuing with exactly the same format, initially with the same presenters but subsequently presented by
Nick Knowles
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and
Gaby Roslin
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. ''City Hospital'' later moved from Southampton General Hospital to
Guy's and
St Thomas' hospitals in
London
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with the presentation team changing; subsequent presenters included
Jeremy Milnes and
Nadia Sawalha.
Both ''The General'' and ''City Hospital'' were produced by
Topical Television.
References
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