Emergency (1959 TV series) Emergency (1959 TV series) Emergency is an Australian television series produced by GTV-9 in 1959. The series was set in the busy casualty department of a major Melbourne hospital, and is notable for being one of the first-ever dramas shown on Australian television. Made by Melbourne's GTV-9 in co-operation with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and based on Britain's "Emergency Ward 10", "Emergency" starred Brian James as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson, Syd Conabere as orderly George Rogers, and Judith Godden as Nurse Jill Adamson. Moira Carleton also featured as Matron Evans. The series was produced primarily in the GTV-9 studio, with brief
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead the new buildings were officially opened by the Queen Mother on 18 March 1948. An out-patients department, an accident and emergency department, a new operating theatre and a medical records department were added in 1967. A new pathology "centre of excellence" for patients from Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside, funded from a £12 million grant from the government, opened in early 2014. A new £32 million emergency care centre opened in February 2015. Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is based in Sheriff Hill in Gateshead, England. It is managed by Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital