The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) is part of a new BBC documentary series investigating The Secret Life Of The Hospital Bed.

The unique 15-part programme uses fixed-rig cameras on beds to tell the story of patients at four different hospitals across the country.

As well as the QEHB, the 45-minute episodes also feature the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, Queens Hospital in Romford and the Great Northern Children’s Hospital in Newcastle.

The circumstances, ailments, treatments, length of stay – everything is personal to the individual patients involved. The one constant throughout is the bed.

With over 150,000 currently in use across the NHS and almost 1,213 in the QEHB alone, hospital beds can be vital in the most important moments of people’s lives.

Filmed over five weeks, the series features a bed in the Ambulatory Care (day surgery) Department at the QEHB; plus beds in the A&E, Maternity and Paediatric departments at the other hospitals.

The unique nature of the access means that viewers see the ways in which patients and staff interact, shining a spotlight onto the vital work carried out by the hospital’s dedicated staff members, and giving an intimate and heart-warming portrayal of life, death, and everything in between inside Britain's hospitals.

The first episode will air on BBC One at 11:00 on Monday 14 November 2016.