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
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