A consultant hopes 'surreal' 24 Hours in A&E can showcase what Nottingham hospitals offer. Dr Bob Winter, who used to be a Major Trauma Consultant at the Queen’s Medical Centre, will feature in five episodes of Channel 4’s 24 Hours in A&E documentary.
This includes the programme scheduled for 9pm on January 17, where he helps treat a man who had suffered a grisly ankle injury in a road accident. The 64-year-old was one of the 1,000 staff who consented to being filmed for the hit TV show's first season outside of London, which was captured by more than 100 cameras between October 2021 and March 2022.
He retired from his role in the NHS in August 2022, after starting his career as a medical student the year QMC opened. Dr Winter said watching the fly-on-the-wall series had been a 'surreal' experience so far.
"Once you got used to being mic'd up when you went into resus, then you just got on with your day job. To be fair to the crew that were in there, they were very unobtrusive.
"It is quite strange seeing your colleagues on TV. You see stuff that you sort of take for granted, and you see it on the TV screen.
"I wouldn't have said it jarred, but it was a very odd experience and quite surreal. Most of the colleagues you see on the programme I have worked with since they started working at the Emergency Department."
The former NHS worker said he hoped 24 Hours in A&E would act as a showcase for Queen's Medical Centre. "I started as a medical student the year the QMC opened as a hospital. I retired last August, which marked 13 years as a consultant at Queen's so I thought it was fitting," Dr Winter added.
"For me the real thing is that 24 hours in A&E has always been very London centric. I do know a lot of the people that have appeared in the London episodes, because of where I have worked in the past.
"But I think it is nice to showcase what Nottingham can offer. Queen's is actually the busiest major trauma centre in the UK by patient numbers and we do look after people well."
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