GPs: Behind Closed Doors

TV Show · Documentary

This observational documentaries takes viewers into the private world of local GP surgeries. Now in its sixth season, `GPs: Behind Closed Doors' welcomes viewers into the Ridge Medical Practice in Bradford for an exclusive look into the every day lives of the doctors who work there. Due to overstretched hospital A&E departments, GPs are being asked more and more to cover the areas the hospitals can't. The first episode of the sixth series features an alarming case of chicken pox and a teenager with insomnia.

2014 · 1h 0m
Director Richard Pepe

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    Episode 1
    Introduces experienced GPs Chrisanthan `Ferdy' Ferdinand and Jean Parker, who have been serving south east London for many years. Among the many patients to come through their doors is recovering addict Spencer.
    1h
  • EPISODE 2
    Episode 2
    Dr Ferdinand must break some difficult news to a patient's children when it becomes clear that she has dementia. Dr Parker treats a older lady who is acutely lonely, having just lost her husband and her sister.
    1h
  • EPISODE 3
    Episode 3
    The doctors must deliver good and bad news to a new batch of patients. Brian, a regular visitor to the GP surgery, comes in to seek help for his anger problems after he got into a fight with an old friend.
    1h
  • EPISODE 4
    Episode 4
    Dr Savage deals with two emotional cases as he treats a recently released prisoner who has previously struggled with depression, and a older man who has a drinking problem. Dr Opong sees a patient who is terrified that he may have cancer.
    1h
  • EPISODE 6
    Episode 6
    The mental health of patients and GPs at the Practice comes under the microscope, including the health of one of its own GPs. In an astonishingly frank interview, Dr Ashleigh Helm reveals how she too once suffered with a severe eating disorder.
    52 min
  • EPISODE 7
    Episode 7
    Veteran GP Dr Don McKenzie has to perform a rectal examination, diagnoses a young girl with a marble-sized growth on her forearm, and comforts a patient with terminal cancer. Meanwhile, Dr Maria Wallace must bring all of her medical knowledge to bear if she is to correctly diagnose a man whose symptoms include a habit of hitting himself in the face.
    52 min

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Cast & Crew

  • R‌P
    Richard Pepe
    Director
  • S‌P
    Sarah Powell
    Producer
  • R‌P
    Rebecca Parnell
    Producer
  • P‌D
    Pat Doyle
    Producer
  • J‌S
    Jonathan Stadlen
    Producer

About

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

Documentary

This observational documentaries takes viewers into the private world of local GP surgeries. Now in its sixth season, `GPs: Behind Closed Doors' welcomes viewers into the Ridge Medical Practice in Bradford for an exclusive look into the every day lives of the doctors who work there. Due to overstretched hospital A&E departments, GPs are being asked more and more to cover the areas the hospitals can't. The first episode of the sixth series features an alarming case of chicken pox and a teenager with insomnia.

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Britbox
Released
2014

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  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
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  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
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  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
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  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
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  • United Arab Emirates
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