Series 5

Season 5 · 2024 · 6 episodes

Emma Willis experiences the training process on a maternity ward, working four shifts a week to discover what makes it one of the toughest but most rewarding careers possible.

1Episode 1Emma wants to create a good first impression, but her first day doesn't start as planned when she forgets to bring the right shoes and has to call her husband to come to her rescue.
2Episode 2In her second week at Watford General Hospital, Emma must step up when she's asked to take an active role in theatre during a Caesarean birth.
3Episode 3Nearly halfway through her time at the hospital, Emma gets thrown in at the deep end with birthing pool evacuation training and learning how to remove a catheter.
4Episode 4Emma seeks advice from her mentor Jo on how to accelerate her Maternity Support Worker training. Jo takes her under her wing and gets Emma to do two critical tests on new-born babies.
5Episode 5Emma is running out of time to get her qualification and sets a deadline to finish by the end of the week. But to do this she has to get her surgical skills signed off in theatre.
6Episode 6Emma's time at the hospital comes to an end. Before she leaves, she faces the biggest challenge of her NHS career - running an ante-natal clinic for expectant mums completely on her own.

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