EMERGENCY 24/7: BBC FOLLOW THE WORK OF MAJOR TRAUMA CENTRE FOR NEW FACTUAL SERIES

Emergency 24/7 is embedded inside the busy Emergency Department at Southmead Hospital, a Major Trauma Centre in Bristol, to reveal the everyday pressures as well as the complex teamwork required to keep the department running.

It will follow staff as they look after patients from diagnosis through to their treatment, encountering everything from car crash amputations, stabbings and third-degree burns.

The series will explore the role and contributions from the multi-discipline trauma team, senior consultants, surgeons and nursing staff and the larger hospital team - seeing how each of them play their own specific part to ensure the best possible outcome.

The new commission sees Expectation expanding its ‘24/7’ brand following the huge success of previous series Murder 24/7 which was BBC Two’s joint highest rating series during 2025 - hitting an audience of 3.2 million viewers.

Expectation is also currently in production on a third series of Murder 24/7, for BBC One and iPlayer, due to deliver later this year, which will feature a range of new investigations carried out by detectives at West Mercia police, including a brutal murder and manhunt in Hereford and a domestic homicide in Redditch.

Rachael Barnes, Executive Producer, said: “Emergency 24/7 offers unprecedented insight into what it truly means to work at the coalface of the NHS today. With extraordinary access and the trust of frontline ED staff, the series places viewers right inside the pressure of the emergency department, witnessing life-saving decisions and calculations in real time.”

Colin Barr, Creative Director, Factual, at Expectation added: “The success of Murder 24/7 with viewers made us realise that we could use the same dynamic and immersive style to deliver forensic storytelling in a different world: the world of A & E. We’re thrilled to be extending the 24/7 brand together with the BBC, and hope that Emergency 24/7 grips and informs audiences in the same way that Murder 24/7 did.”

Emergency 24/7, a 6x60’ for BBC One and iPlayer, is an Expectation production.