It's peak time in one of the biggest emergency departments in the country, at 40 years old Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the heart of the city. The hospital is already near capacity and almost all beds are full.

Following a patient who has been in intensive care for twelve months, and another who has been ready for rehab for the past two months. Neither can leave The Walton Centre as there are no facilities outside for them.

A consultant recruitment crisis threatens care at Liverpool Women's Hospital. Doctors balance the care of a pregnant mother with cancer and a 33 hour old baby is rushed for surgery.

Alder Hay closes it's critical car unit to new admissions. A five year old girl returns three times for her cancelled heart operation and surgery at the edge of technology saves the life of a baby.

On an unusual day, three kidney transplants are due at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Meanwhile, at the woman's hospital, a mother pregnant with twins is faced with a heart wrenching decision.

A teenager self funds cutting edge surgery to treat his cerebral palsy, and surgeons go to appeal to fund an 81 year old's heart surgery and new DNA tumour profiling to try to save a baby.