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
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