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
University Hospital of North Tees known as the University Hospital of North Tees. The accident and emergency department was the subject of the BBC documentary programme Panorama in January 2014. The programme showed the pressures placed on emergency departments by waiting time targets. Then in January 2018 the BBC reported that the hospital was among those with the best waiting times in England but that patients were forced to wait in ambulances and in corridors. Staff were overworked and under pressure, many saying they would have to leave due for that reason. University Hospital of North Tees The University Hospital of North Tees is a