Introduction; 1. Reassuring or challenging? A survey of representations of the NHS in British TV medical drama since 1971; 2. ‘Fraternising with the Nurses’: Optimism and Pessimism about the NHS in The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads; 3. ‘Take Four Girls’: Angels and the Cultural Configuration of NHS Nurses and Nursing on British Television; 4. Thirty-eight Years in A&E: Charlie Fairhead’s Evolving Representation of the Role of Nursing in Casualty; 5. The Indian Doctor and the Inverse Care Law: How South Asian Physicians Transformed General Practice in the National Health Service; 6. ‘Is your doctor sympathetic? I don’t want one that isn’t’: Call the Midwife’s reimagining of the NHS General Practitioner; 7. ‘Fighting the forces of darkness - and dealing with the burden of everyday admin’: Horror hospitals and the satiric doctor/hero in Jed Mercurio’s Bodies (2004) and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (2004); 8. ‘The hospital is not your larder’: Representing the NHS in BBC TV’s Being Human; 9. ‘I’m sorry. I really did try’: televised discomfort, physician mental health, and the ‘reality’ of austerity healthcare politics in This Is Going to Hurt; Index