The Big Hospital Experiment review – can a volunteer army save the NHS?

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Although this documentary is warm and heartfelt, the central premise – using an unpaid workforce to paper over cracks in the health service – may leave you queasy

Mad medicine? – volunteers Eddie and Charlotte on the wards. Photograph: Ryan McNamara/BBC/Blast! Filmshe Big Hospital Experiment is a lovely and heartfelt documentary about community, volunteering and the power of shared humanity, and within a few moments of it starting, I was furious. The cameras follow 14 young men and women who have signed up to work in the Royal Derby hospital for six weeks.

 

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Of course not, just as a masterchef cannot save NHS food though increasing the amount spent on ingredients might!

Not if the volunteers are being used to fill gaps created by poor staffing ratios, staff gaps and general underfunding

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