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Acute

Episode number: 1

Overview: Jessie finds herself the object of surprise when she applies for a surgical position at St Clair’s hospital

Decline

Episode number: 2

Overview: We are shown something of the relationship between private health care and the NHS, and between the NHS and pharmaceutical companies.

Chronic

Episode number: 3

Overview: The third episode focuses on the closure of Nightingale block, which will save the health authority £560,000 (one-twentieth of the hospital’s expenditure) at the expense of 120 beds.

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Episode number: 4

Overview: The fourth episode confronts the issue of the treatment of mentally ill patients and is perhaps the most overtly troubling.