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
St. Luke's General Hospital St. Luke's General Hospital St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny (also known as "Carlow/Kilkenny General Hospital" and "Kilkenny District Hospital") (Irish: "Ospidéal Ginearálta Naomh Lúcás, Cill Chainnigh") is a public hospital located in Kilkenny, Ireland. Founded in 1942, it is managed by the Irish Government's Health Service Executive and provides acute hospital services, including a 24-hour emergency department, for the population of County Kilkenny, County Carlow, and part of County Tipperary. In 2008, the hospital served 51,804 out-patients, 15,957 in-patients, and 9,260 day cases, with an average stay of 5.2 nights. In 2007, there were 33,590 accident and emergency department presentations.