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
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