Hospital
NOMINATED: BAFTA (BEST FACTUAL SERIES)
5x 60 minute films as part of the award-winning documentary series for BBC2
Filmed, Produced and Directed 2x films for series 4 & 5
Edit Produced 3x films for series 5 & 6
Label 1 TV
Watch series 6, episode 6 | Watch series 5, episode 2 | Watch series 4, episode 2
“Hospital is one of the BBC’s best factual series.”
Mail on Sunday
“This was, as so often, a reminder of the superb work done quietly by medical staff and of the gargantuan bills faced daily by the NHS… humbling television.”
★★★★ The Times (Series 4, Episode 2)
Award-winning documentary series, renowned for its frank and journalistic examination of the enormous pressures facing the NHS, and the remarkable people who keep it running.
For Series 4 I made a film called WAR IN THE MIND about the difficulties brain injury patients face in accessing rehabilitation, with rehab beds in increasingly short supply. At the Walton Centre in Liverpool (the country’s only dedicated specialist neurological hospital trust) I met Sophie, an impressive young woman who had found herself on intensive care for 18 months after a dangerous and inexplicable swelling of her brain, and who was desperate to get home. I also filmed with Tom, who sustained a brain injury in a car crash and who frequently challenged staff on his ward by trying to escape.
For Series 5 I returned to Liverpool and concentrated on filming unusual stories in the city’s main A&E department at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, making a film called FREE FOR ALL? which features the hospital trust making the difficult decision to ban a repeat-attender from A&E, and the devastating story of an amputee made homeless because of the social housing crisis.
I also co-directed a single film called ROAD TO RECOVERY at the Royal Free Hospital in London, which follows the Trust battling to restore vital services after the Covid-19 pandemic.
I’ve also cut multiple films for Hospital, including about patients with Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), a little-known and chronically underfunded condition.
Filmed, Produced and Directed by Dan Howell
Executive Producers: Simon Dickson, Lorraine Charker-Phillips, Jackie Waldock, Eric Harwood,
Rachel Morgan
Series Producers: Gayl Patterson, Megan Just-Truelove, Kitty O’Hara
Producers: Tom Colville (S4); Hannah Blackwell (S5); Poppy Begum; Kiran Sira; Alice O’Brien
Editors: Simon Cooper, Simon Richards (S4); Finlay Milne (S5)
Edit Producers: Mark Rossiter (S4); Jack Walton (S5)
