24 HOURS IN A&E

Senior Gallery Producer / Director

Channel 4 | The Garden | Multi-series | 2018–2023

An award-winning Channel 4 documentary series offering unprecedented access to one of the UK’s busiest Accident & Emergency departments, combining life-or-death medical cases with the personal stories of patients and NHS staff.

The most recent series I filmed was at Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, a major trauma centre treating more than 600 patients a day. Using over 100 fixed-rig, remote-controlled cameras installed across resus, majors, and minors, the series captures events as they unfold, without disrupting care or altering behaviour.

Filming takes place continuously, 24 hours a day, over a six-week period, with multiple gallery and floor teams working in rotation. Despite the scale of the rig, only a limited number of cameras can be recorded at any one time, placing significant editorial responsibility on the gallery to identify, follow, and commit to the most compelling and consented stories as they emerge.

As a senior gallery producer and director, I held overall responsibility for editorial decision-making in both the gallery and on the hospital floor. This included overseeing live coverage across departments, managing teams under intense pressure, and maintaining constant communication via talkback to ensure stories were followed clearly, sensitively, and safely.

A core part of the role involved navigating the programme’s two-tier consent process - ensuring patients and staff fully understood their rights, including the ability to withdraw at any point -while upholding the highest standards of care, dignity, and respect. Strong judgement, calm leadership, and clear communication were essential to balancing access with responsibility in one of the most ethically complex documentary environments on television.