Holby City cast as Greg Douglas in series twelve. "Holby City" and "Casualty" are both set in Holby City Hospital, in the fictional county of Wyvern, in the southwest of England close to the Welsh border. The city exterior is represented by Bristol, though "Holby City" is filmed at BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The "Casualty" set in Bristol was not large enough to encompass the surgical ward and operating theatre required for "Holby City", and as a result, some crossover scenes in the first episode had to be shot twice, first on the "Casualty" set and then again at Elstree,
William Harvey Hospital Ashford, criticised proposals that some services would require patients to be bussed back to the old hospital when William Harvey Hospital opened. In 2000, the press reported that staff shortages at the hospital were putting patient's lives at risk, which drew local MP Damian Green to criticise the management of the NHS in parliament. Green continued to complain about the state of the hospital, noting in 2001 that patients had been waiting in the accident and emergency department for 24 hours. In 2013, hospital staff members threatened to quit due to proposed increases in parking permit charges from March 2014.