Shot under clinical florescent light, the series depicted the NHS as a Kafkaesque bureaucracy of paperwork and political correctness, scant resources and desperate measures.
One of the earliest fictional works to address conditions in Aneurin Bevan’s healthcare revolution was White Corridors (1951).
Covering a range of different conditions from cancer to child abuse, the series won a Bafta in 1997.
Consultants were revealed to be as arrogant, conceited and fallible as the next person, not intimidating figures to be revered without question.