HERE is a sneak peek behind the scenes of Stacey Dooley’s documentary filmed at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have posted a tweet featuring a series of photos of the popular TV presenter filming at the BRI last month.
The programme, ‘Panorama: Stacey Dooley and the Lockdown Babies’, will be broadcast on BBC One on Monday, August 3, at 7.30pm.
A total of 454 babies, including nine sets of twins, were born at Bradford Royal Infirmary’s maternity unit during June - and some of these ‘lockdown’ babies will now feature in the documentary.
The programme will see the popular presenter spend a week at the site as she met new parents during the coronavirus crisis.
There's now just 4 days to go until Panorama: @StaceyDooley & the Lockdown Babies! Don't miss the programme on #BBC1 this Monday at 7:30pm. Almost 250,000 babies were born in the UK in lockdown. Stacey visits BRI to find out how the pandemic has transformed pregnancy & birth. 🍼 pic.twitter.com/heHlypuqQG
— Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS FT (@BTHFT) July 30, 2020
Stacey meets pregnant women terrified of coronavirus, women giving birth and new mothers.
She also speaks to the hospital’s midwives and doctors, who reveal how their lives have changed in order to protect mothers, babies and themselves from the risk of infection during the pandemic.
Filming, which was carried out by Candour Productions, a Yorkshire-based independent production company, took place over a week in early June at BRI’s Women’s and Newborn Unit, Neonatal Unit and Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR), all part of Bradford Teaching Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Stacey thanked the people of Bradford in a video posted on social media after her time in the city.
The presenter said earlier this week: “Everyone has been very lovely, very generous. Just really brilliant. Hope we can capture that, the human element that exists here.”
Karen Dawber, the Trust’s chief nurse, said: “We were thrilled to have Stacey and the film crew with us.
"I’ve had a sneak preview of the footage and I feel it really captures the spirit, kindness and dedication of our maternity teams, who work so hard to make birth a wonderful and special experience for our mums in these unprecedented times.
“It just shows that even in the midst of a global pandemic, new life is being brought safely and joyously into the world.
"I’d like to say a special thanks to all our staff who made Stacey and the crew feel so welcome.”
The maternity unit at BRI is one of the busiest, delivering more than 6,000 babies each year.
The hospital’s neonatal unit has an award-winning, secure video link system – the first of its kind in the country - which connects mums and babies who cannot always be together.
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