Three-part documentary following surgeons, theatre staff and patients of the surgical unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where 700 operations are carried out every week.

Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform and save their patients’ lives. The pressure is intense as they push the boundaries of modern medicine.

Surgeons perform extraordinarily complex and risky procedures to transform lives.

Surgeons at Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s hospitals perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.

Surgeons at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge perform complex procedures to save lives. But this comes with great risk, and the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.