Holby Holby Holby is a fictional city in the United Kingdom, the setting for the BBC medical dramas "Casualty" and "Holby City", and the police drama "HolbyBlue". It is based on the real city of Bristol, where "Casualty" was formerly filmed, and is notionally located in the fictional county of Wyvern in South West England, not far from the border with Wales. While "Casualty" has been filmed in Cardiff since 2011, "Holby City" is filmed in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Both shows are set in the same fictional Holby City Hospital. Holby has an airport called Holby International. Holby City Hospital is the
Pre-hospital emergency medicine Pre-hospital emergency medicine Pre-hospital emergency medicine (abbreviated PHEM) is a medical speciality which focuses on caring for seriously ill or injured patients before they reach hospital, and during emergency transfer to hospital or between hospitals. It is a subspecialty which may be practised by physicians from various backgrounds such as anaesthesiology, emergency medicine, intensive care medicine and acute medicine, after they have completed initial training in their base specialty. Doctors practising PHEM are usually well-integrated with local emergency medical services, and are dispatched together with emergency medical technicians or paramedics where potentially life-threatening trauma or illness is suspected that may