City Hospital (BBC)

City Hospital was a medical documentary television series that aired on BBC1, the United Kingdom's National Network from 1998 till 2007. It ran over nine series with over 360 hours of film broadcast every weekday from 10 am.

It was broadcast live from London's flagship NHS Health Trust - Guy's Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital and also covered Princess Anne Maternity Hospital in Southampton. The show followed real patients and staff and featured daily live-to-air footage of actual surgical operations, as they were being performed.

A ratings success, the final series commanded a quarter of all the UK television audience at 10am every weekday - over a million viewers daily.

The programme had unprecedented BBC Audience Appreciation (AI) figures for a daytime broadcast. When viewers were asked which programme they would put at the top of all the BBC programmes they had watched that week, City Hospital consistently scored highly. During the last week of programmes, the AI figure was an almost unheard of 88%. The BBC reported: "Alongside the usual big hitters, the dramas and US imports, the daytime programme City Hospital always wins through with high AIs."

In 1999, Yvette Fielding's boy-friend camera man on the show proposed to her live on air. She said yes to him and they have been married for over ten years.

Presenters included:

Numerous guests presenters, including celebrities, actors and musicians made cameo appearances.

The theme tune was Bruce Hornsby-The Way it is

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