The Hospital: in the Deep End
How healthy is our health system? Three Australian icons take a deep dive into a public hospital’s frontline to find out.
Synopsis
News headlines constantly tell us our public health system and its workers are at breaking point. But what’s it really like to work on the hospital frontline? In this ground-breaking series three Australian icons with a unique connection to the health system go beyond the headlines to find out. TV presenter and food and travel writer Melissa Leong, host of Gardening Australia Costa Georgiadis and actor Samuel Johnson are thrown out of their comfort zones and onto St Vincent’s hospital’s frontline. Real and raw, emotional and enlightening, The Hospital: In the Deep End will have you seeing these icons and our public health system as you’ve never seen them before.
Produced in Western Australia
On the traditional country of the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation
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Production Information
Executive Producer
Dan Brown
Producers
Anthony Barwell
Presenters
Melissa Leong
Samuel Johnson
Costa Georgiadis
Narrator
Mark Coles Smith
Broadcaster
SBS
Key WA Crew
Director of Photography
Michael McDermott
Story Producer
Christian Horgan
Line Producer
Tamsin McArdle
Editors
Ivan Davidov
Chris Trappe
Merlin Eden
Sound
Ash Charlton
Jason North
Sound Mix
Kim Lord
Benjamin Morris