Trust to star in new BBC documentary

Chelsea and Westminster has been chosen as the setting for the second series of the award-winning BBC documentary Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands.

The programme will follow the lives of seven junior doctors (FY1s and FY2s) at work and at home when they start working in the hospital on 1 August.

Filming will continue until the end of October and the series is due to be broadcast on BBC3 in January 2012.

The first series, which was set in Newcastle, proved a ratings and critical success—it won Best Popular Factual programme in the recent Broadcast Digital Awards.

Filming will be carried out sensitively by an experienced production team, working closely with the Trust's Communications Department, and consent procedures will be agreed before cameras come into the hospital in August.

Zai Bennett, Controller of BBC3, says: “Junior Doctors has been one of the stand-out original programmes on BBC3 this year. I am delighted that we are bringing it back with a new cast of young doctors in a new location.”

Lucy Shepherd, BBC Series Producer for Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands, is one of the BBC team who will be filming in the hospital over the next few months.

She says: “We are delighted to be filming a second series of the programme at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital because it has a reputation for attracting some of the best young doctors and we are looking forward to filming a new set of FY1s and FY2s as they begin their rotation in August.

“The first series achieved record viewing figures for BBC3 and was widely acclaimed both within the medical profession and by the viewers at home.

“Our filming will be observational, with a Producer and Assistant Producer assigned to each junior doctor following them with a small handheld camera as they begin work on the wards.”