Friday 3rd September 2010

Information TV / 7:00 - 8:00am

How Hospitals Heal Themselves

Better health care begins with a new way of thinking, not new technology, a list of things to do, involvement of the federal government, or resolution of the malpractice debate, or insurance coverage.

Friday 3rd September 2010

Discovery / 2:00 - 3:00pm

100 Greatest Discoveries

Medicine

Medicinal breakthroughs have undoubtedly changed the world for the better. This episode considers the discovery of penicillin, X-rays and anaesthesia.

Saturday 4th September 2010

Revelation TV / 5:30 - 6:30pm

Health in Focus

Join Dr Laura as she discusses health matters.

Saturday 4th September 2010

Information TV / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Changing for a Healthier Scotland

Part One

Frontline NHS Scotland staff show how simple changes in healthcare can improve patient care.

Sunday 5th September 2010

BBC 2 / 9:30 - 10:00am

Gastronuts

Can Good Foods be Bad and Bad Foods be Good?

Food fanatic Stefan Gates and his intrepid Gastronuts go on wild culinary adventures to discover the truth about how we eat, what we eat and where it comes from. Stefan and the Gastonuts move into the murky world of food that is healthy and unhealthy. Do we really know what is good for us? And how do we test that? To find out, they blow up breakfast cereals, become contestants in a game show, and even try life as a sumo wrestler.

Sunday 5th September 2010

Information TV / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Changing for a Healthier Scotland

Part Two

Frontline NHS Scotland staff show how simple changes in healthcare can improve patient care.

Monday 6th September 2010

Information TV / 5:30 - 6:00pm

NHS Online

Investment into research and development of products that will combat the superbug menace is playing a crucial role in reducing the risk of infection and cross contamination of hospital patients.

Monday 6th September 2010

BBC 1 / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Panorama

A Risk Worth Taking?

We are in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. The NHS spent more than half a billion pounds on medication for it in 2009. Patients trust that these drugs are safe, but does one come with a hidden cost to health? Shelley Jofre investigates the rise and fall of Avandia, until recently one of the UK's best-selling diabetes drugs, and asks whether the medicine's regulator is putting the interests of the drugs industry before patients.

Monday 6th September 2010

ITV 1 / 10:35 - 11:35pm

Surgery School

Documentary charting the progress of ten interns at the prestigious London School of Surgery, who are training to become consultant surgeons. Every year 2,000 young doctors apply for a position but only just over 100 are chosen. In this episode, 26-year-old Rose is late for an operation and misses a crucial procedure. Rishi gets a severe dressing down from a consultant about his stitching standards, while inexperienced Nicola comes close to tears when a tough start means she cannot finish an operation. Meanwhile, Andrew must decide if he wants to follow in his father's footsteps or whether he is not cut out for surgery.

Tuesday 7th September 2010

More4 / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Girls on the Pull

First shown as part of the First Cut strand, showcasing bold, bright and original documentaries by up-and-coming film-makers, Ruth Kelly's Girls on the Pull follows three women who are on a quest to stop pulling their hair out. Hair is a multi-million-pound industry. It is a potent sign of femininity, sexuality and health. As a nation, we are obsessed with it: we preen it, cut it, style it, dye it and spend millions on it every year. Losing it can be devastating. Yet across Britain thousands of women are literally tearing their hair out. They suffer from trichotillomania, an impulse-control disorder that causes people to pull out their own hair, often to the point of extreme baldness. This film explores the reasons behind this by meeting three women living with the condition who are desperate to get their hair-pulling under control.

Tuesday 7th September 2010

ITV 1 / 9:00 - 10:00pm

Help! I Caught it Abroad

Documentary looking at some of the unfortunate medical problems that unlucky holidaymakers have picked up abroad. The show is filmed at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, one of the world's leading research centres. One room of the School houses colonies of bugs and mosquitoes and several dangerous snakes - kept to produce anti-venom. Featuring patients who have been bitten by snakes and monkeys or infected with liver and eye parasites, as well as cases of malaria and leprosy.

Friday 10th September 2010

Information TV / 6:00 - 7:00am

How Hospitals Heal Themselves

Better health care begins with a new way of thinking, not new technology, a list of things to do, involvement of the federal government, or resolution of the malpractice debate, or insurance coverage.

Saturday 11th September 2010

Discovery / 2:00 - 3:00pm

100 Greatest Discoveries

Medicine

Medicinal breakthroughs have undoubtedly changed the world for the better. This episode considers the discovery of penicillin, X-rays and anaesthesia.

Sunday 12th September 2010

More4 / 10:00 - 11:00pm

My New Brain

Each year in Britain, 135,000 people end up in hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Most at risk are young men, and the effects, though often hidden, can be profound and life-changing for the people affected, as well as their families and friends. In this powerful and moving documentary for Cutting Edge, acclaimed filmmaker Zac Beattie follows 20-year-old Simon Hales on a remarkable journey through rehabilitation, as he and his family come to terms with the challenges of life after brain injury.

Monday 13th September 2010

BBC 4 / 7:30 - 8:30pm

Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

Documentary series about the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery continues with a look at the development of transplant surgery. These days, transplant surgery saves thousands of lives every year and almost everything, from heart to eyes, can be replaced. But in the beginning, transplants killed rather than cured, because surgeons didn't understand that they were taking on one of the most efficient killing systems we know of - the human immune system.

Monday 13th September 2010

Information TV / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Changing for a Healthier Scotland

Part One

Frontline NHS Scotland staff show how simple changes in healthcare can improve patient care.

Tuesday 14th September 2010

Information TV / 8:30 - 9:00pm

Changing for a Healthier Scotland

Part Two

Frontline NHS Scotland staff show how simple changes in healthcare can improve patient care.

Thursday 16th September 2010

Information TV / 7:30 - 8:00pm

NHS Online

Investment into research and development of products that will combat the superbug menace is playing a crucial role in reducing the risk of infection and cross contamination of hospital patients.

Friday 17th September 2010

Information TV / 7:00 - 8:00am

How Hospitals Heal Themselves

Better health care begins with a new way of thinking, not new technology, a list of things to do, involvement of the federal government, or resolution of the malpractice debate, or insurance coverage.

Thursday 23rd September 2010

Discovery Real Time / 12:00 - 1:00pm

When Kim and Aggie Went to Hospital

Kim and Aggie head to west London to put the cleanliness of Ealing Hospital under the microscope and explore how to make hospitals safer and healthierplaces.

Friday 24th September 2010

Information TV / 6:00 - 7:00am

How Hospitals Heal Themselves

Better health care begins with a new way of thinking, not new technology, a list of things to do, involvement of the federal government, or resolution of the malpractice debate, or insurance coverage.

Wednesday 29th September 2010

Information TV / 12:00 - 12:30pm

NHS Online

Investment into research and development of products that will combat the superbug menace is playing a crucial role in reducing the risk of infection and cross contamination of hospital patients.

Sunday 5th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Monday 6th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00am

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Tuesday 7th September 2010

BBC Radio Four/ 9:30 - 9:45am

How The Mighty Have Fallen

Part 4 of 4

Four-part series in which Dr Hilary Jones explores the history of obesity. Hilary examines pills, potions and quackery. In conversation with Professor David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum he peruses a collection of weird and wonderful historic remedies, including the 'King of Corpulency Cures'. He hears about the dire consequences of some of the more dangerous remedies, and asks what we can learn from the past; will there ever be a miracle obesity cure? Other contributors include pharmacist Dr Terry Maguire and leading obesity expert Professor Stephan Rossner of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Tuesday 7th September 2010

BBC Radio Four/ 9:00 - 9:30pm

Case Notes

Dr Mark Porter investigates biomechanics and sports injuries at the University of Bath Sports Village. He gets tips on avoiding problems such as back pain and arthritis.

Sunday 12th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Monday 13th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 8:32 - 9:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Tuesday 14th September 2010

BBC Radio Four/ 3:45 - 4:00pm

The Preposterous Files

Julian Putkowski presents a series on cases from the National Archives that show up Civil Service bureaucracy at its nonsensical and frequently hilarious worst. In 1900, the North of England press began to report a mysterious epidemic that was affecting thousands of beer drinkers. The medical profession declared that it was an outbreak of peripheral neuritis provoked by excessive alcohol consumption, but a sceptical chemist, working alone from a makeshift laboratory, thought otherwise.

Tuesday 14th September 2010

BBC Radio Four/ 9:00 - 9:30pm

Case Notes

Dr Mark Porter investigates how the good and bad fats we eat can impact on our health, including the trans fats associated with heart disease which are found in many takeaway foods. And he discovers that the health benefits of eating Omega fats depend on which you eat and when you eat them.

Wednesday 15th September 2010

BBC Radio Four/ 8:00 - 8:45pm

Iconoclasts

Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which guests set out their strong views on a subject, before being challenged by a panel of experts. 3. Journalist James Bartholomew argues that the NHS should be abolished.

Sunday 19th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Monday 20th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 3:32 - 4:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Sunday 26th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Monday 27th September 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 10:32 - 11:00am

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Sunday 3rd October 2010

BBC World Service Radio / 10:32 - 11:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Monday 4th October 2010

BBC World Service Radio/ 8:32 - 9:00pm

Health Check

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.