New RTÉ documentary series set to bring viewers inside one of Ireland's busiest hospitals

RTÉ have announced a powerful new six-part documentary series that will give a unique insight behind the scenes of one of Ireland’s biggest and busiest hospitals.

Filmed over a duration of six months, the series offers access inside Cork University Hospital (CUH), capturing the round the clock shifts of the thousands of professionals who work tirelessly to deliver care.

Any Given Day will tell a story of a health service in action through staff stories and patient journeys. Each episode will follow staff shifts and patient's progress across the hospital, with every story captured over the course of a single day.

Together, these moments will combine to tell a larger, compelling story of a what a typical day looks like at Cork University Hospital.

On any given day, 4,000 staff come to work at Cork University Hospital as they care for approximately 800 inpatients, 800 outpatients and more than 240 emergency cases. The highs and lows inside the hospital will be explored in detail as hearts are broken and hearts are mended, lives are lost and lives are saved.

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Across the series, Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital follows extraordinary moments of care and emergency. Viewers will witness teams respond to a cyclist who has been airlifted to the hospital following a serious road collision, while elsewhere doctors face complex decisions as an expectant mother undergoing cancer treatment attends a critical pregnancy scan.

In the Emergency Department, staff treat everything from sports injuries to severe accidents, including patients rushed in after seizures or traumatic chest injuries. The series also captures high-stakes procedures, from emergency stroke interventions to complex surgeries, all while families and loved ones wait anxiously for news.

The new series which is produced by Indiepics and Scratch Films for RTÉ reveals the high stakes and life changing stories unfolding everyday inside Cork University Hospital.

This will include each aspect from the pressurised emergency department to the precision of complex life changing surgeries.

Any Given Day: Cork University Hospital premieres on Wednesday, January 7 at 9:35pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player.