Wednesday 3 February at 6.30pm
UK, 2005
Producer: Liz Bloor
Language: English
Awards: Special Commendation – Medical Journalism Awards 2005. Margaret Haywood won the Nursing Standard’s Patient’s Choice Award.
During a three-month undercover investigation, a nurse working for Panorama secretly recorded her experience working on an acute medical ward in a failing hospital. Most of the patients were elderly and some were dying.
Panorama’s investigation is a stark portrayal of the indignities faced by elderly people as they reach the end of their days in a major British hospital.
Undercover Nurse follows on from the broadcast of A Carer’s Story in 2003, which raised concerns about hospital care for the elderly. On investigating further Panorama found that the hospital which featured in some of these concerns had itself also received complaints from patients and their families. Panorama felt that undercover filming was the only way to discover what was really happening.
Q&A
After the screening, BBC Panorama producer, Liz Bloor, answered questions about working with whistleblowers, and the undercover nurse herself, Margaret Haywood, discussed her experience of making the programme.
further information
BBC Panorama: Undercover Nurse
BBC Panorama: Margaret Haywood’s Diary
BBC Panorama: Who’d be an NHS Whistleblower?
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