Inside the Operating Theatre

Season 2

Camera rigs in four operating theatres film staff at the day surgery unit of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King's Lynn, Norfolk who perform around 100 operations a week.

Where to Watch Season 2

10 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1A girl has an operation to have squints in both eyes realigned, a man has his infected gall bladder removed and an ex-police officer is having a grommet inserted in her ear.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2A woman has an operation to repair the hernia she suffered while giving birth and a four-year-old's ear blockage is so bad he needs a general anaesthetic to it sucked out
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3Dr Fox's fiancée Sally is having an operation to remove her wisdom teeth – leaving him in the visitor's chair, Brian is having a double hernia repaired and Joyce has the first of two cataract operations to help her see properly.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Peter has been flown home from holiday for an urgent operation to repair a detached retina, Tony has a leaky vein which has caused an ulcer in his leg, and 14-yearold Izzy has a canine tooth which hasn't descended properly and needs exposing.
  • Episode 5
    E5
    Episode 5Lyn has an investigation of her womb after a recent biopsy revealed abnormal cells, Steve is worried about only getting a local anaesthetic before his varicose veins are removed and 23-year-old gym fanatic Rhys is having a hernia repaired.
  • Episode 6
    E6
    Episode 6Julia has a camera investigation of her womb to find out the reason for her heavy bleeding, Emma has a rare painful foot condition so needs an operation to remove a section of bone and Peter's having his badly broken nose reset.
  • Episode 7
    E7
    Episode 7Today, 21-year-old Ben has lost 11 stone but now needs his gallbladder removed as a result, AJ is in agony with compressed nerves in her toes and needs an operation to free them and David is in hospital to have a carcinoma removed from his eyelid.
  • Episode 8
    E8
    Episode 8Former RAF servicewoman Connie is in hospital to have a polyp removed from her womb, Carl will be wide awake while he has keyhole operation to remove torn cartilage from his knee and Brad is having a varicose vein stripped from his leg.
  • Episode 9
    E9
    Episode 98-year-old Luke is having an operation to straighten his squint, Brian needs an ultrasound taken from inside his lung to confirm whether he has cancer and new mum Paige is having her wisdom teeth removed.
  • Episode 10
    E10
    Episode 1015-year-old Thomas has 4 baby teeth that haven't fallen out and need removing, Les is having his urethra widened so that a camera can pass into his bladder to check his cancer hasn't returned and Lesley needs an operation to stop her persistent nose bleeds.

 

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