Casualty (TV series) staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. The show has very few ties to its sister programme "Holby City", which began as a spin-off from "Casualty" in 1999, set in the same hospital. "Casualty" is shown weekly on a Saturday evening, which has been its time slot since the early 1990s. "Casualty"s exterior shots were mainly filmed outside the Ashley Down Centre in Bristol from 1986 until 2002 when they moved to the centre of Bristol for just over nine years. In 2011, "Casualty" celebrated its 25th anniversary; following that, for the Bristol finale, they filmed the
Middlemore Hospital Middlemore Hospital Middlemore Hospital is a major public hospital in the suburb of Middlemore, Auckland, New Zealand. The hospital has approximately 800 beds. There are 24 operating theatres across two sites. Founded in 1947, Middlemore Hospital is the largest hospital in Auckland, with around 4,700 staff providing treatment to more than 91,000 inpatients and over 354,000 outpatients per year (data from 2007). The Emergency Department (ED) is the busiest mixed (adult / paediatric) ED in Australasia, with an annual census of 98,110 patients in 2011, and the rate of presentations to ED increasing at a rate of 5–8% per annum.