How staff at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust are pushing the boundaries of what is possible technologically, at a time when savings need to be made across the board.

This episode explores the daily reality and complexity of dealing with the many patients who find their way to one of Imperial College Healthcare's hospitals hoping that the NHS can pick up the pieces. Until their care package or offsite psychiatric unit placement can be arranged, for their own safety and that of others, they can't be discharged.

Nicky has ovarian cancer and is attempting to crowdfund £60,000 to buy herself a promising drug course not yet available to her on the NHS.

The opening episode of the second series of Hospital follows events as St Mary's Hospital in Paddington receives victims from the Westminster terror attack.