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
Birmingham Accident Hospital around 600 staff working there at any one time. On 14 August 1944 the President of the Hospital, the Lord Mayor of Birmingham welcomed the Minister of Health Sir Henry Willink at the opening of a new reception area and Outpatients department. Willink said the Accident Hospital experiment was being closely watched and was likely to have a permanent future in hospital services. Referring to the Beveridge report and his own 1944 White paper, he said he recognised the close co-operation between the University, the city authorities and the hospital and hoped that this spirit of co-operation would pervade the