5: All Who Were Able For It

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The final story in Sarah Moss's powerful and heart-rending series, set on one hospital ward over a long weekend. As patients wait to be assessed on the Acute Medical Unit, with the few staff exhausted and spent, stories of their lives and possible futures slowly unfold. These are tales of kindness, love and small acts of humanity in a system at breaking point. Today: after a death on the ward, an elderly patient waits anxiously for the morning - when her surgery will take place... Writer: Sarah Moss Reader: Niamh Cusack Producer: Justine Willett