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
South Tipperary General Hospital department. The hospital saw 1,178 live births in 2008. The hospital provides 318 beds, of which 217 are in-patient beds, 25 are designated for day cases, 25 for emergency department patients, and 2 for labour ward admissions, while a further 49 are reserved for psychiatric patients. Specialty services include general medicine, general surgery, dermatology, accident and emergency, oncology, palliative care, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, psychiatry.< The national median waiting time for surgery in November 2009 stood at 1.1 months; at South Tipperary General Hospital this figure was 0.7 months. Overall waiting time was 0.7 months, above the national median