If The Office was set in a hospital... Health care for the elderly is the least prestigious area of the medical service. The patients rarely make a fuss - often they're unable to - and for that reason bad practices slip through. But are they that bad? It's a tough world for staff too and getting on means well getting on. Dark funny tough and compassionate this is the story of one ward in one hospital in one overlooked corner of the modern health service. But although status isn't high moral questions come from all corners. It's a long way from ER and a lot closer to... most people's experiences. It's the bit of health care that gets swept under the carpet - an overload of grumpy messy old people patched up only to return again a few months later. The staff on this ward joke as they go about their daily tasks leaving humour and dignity to mix as it will. With a retrospective script deliberately allowing for improvisation by the actors Getting On is a comedy of characters doing the best they can in a situation we can all relate to; everyone has an elderly relative parent grandparent and difficult choices are the order of the day. It's the scene that awaits all of us - whether we like to admit it or not. [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A pitch-black hospital comedy emerging from the mire of the mundanity bureaucracy and absurdity of health care with warmth wit and laughter Ward B4 is a backwater of an NHS hospital - a depository for dying and discombobulated geriatric women Beset by C diff form-filling and self-obsessed consultants the minimal staff struggle with the daily grind - blithely enduring the absurd hurdles and obstacles of the system and getting through each day on cake and cigarettes Sister Flixter is in charge of the ward but drowning in paperwork neuroses and relationship issues she relies on the graft and common sense of return-to-practice nurse Kim Wilde the lowest form of life on the ward - after the lino The patients of course are the least of their problems especially compared to the jargon-fueled stool-obsessed ward doctor Pippa Moore and a new male matron who is determined to do things by the book Actors Jo Brand Ricky Grover Vicki Pepperdine Joanna Scanlan Patti Bee Helen Griffin & Wendy Nottingham Director Peter Capaldi Certificate 15 years and over Year 2009 Languages English Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes (approx)
The entire first series of the BBC medical sitcom following the fortunes of the staff on an NHS hospital ward. Beset by killer viruses, egomaniacal consultants and endless paperwork, the overworked and underpaid staff of ward B4 struggle on regardless. Snowed under by her workload, neurotic Ward Sister Flixter (Joanna Scanlan) is forced to rely on the talents of seen-it-all-before nurse Kim Wilde (Jo Brand), while trying to avoid the attentions of over-egging Ward Doctor Pippa Moore (Vicki Pepperdine).
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