City Hospital is a medical documentary television series that aired on BBC One from 12 October 1998 until 5 January 2007.
[1] The show followed real patients and staff and featured daily live-to-air footage of actual surgical operations, as they were being performed.
[2] A ratings success, the final series commanded a quarter of all the UK television audience at 10am every weekday - over a million viewers daily.
The BBC reported: "Alongside the usual big hitters, the dramas and US imports, the daytime programme City Hospital always wins through with high AIs."
In 1999 Yvette Fielding's boyfriend Karl Beattie, a cameraman on the show, proposed to her live on air.