A young boy and his nemeses, the local school bully, are forced to spend time together when they both turn green and are isolated in a hospital ward.

The Mini Monsters help Billy overcome his fear of staying overnight in hospital.

Explains to children what is involved in a stay at hospital to have a simple operation.

Five children have magical adventures on the stroke of midnight in the hospital ward where they are all having to spend Christmas.

In a psychiatric hospital, the head doctor lies dead - his skull smashed in with a brass poker. Private investigator Jacob Chaos is called in by Scotland Yard to investigate. But there are many people who might have wished harm upon Dr. Royd: the patients who resented his cruel treatment methods; the doctors who harboured jealousy of his position; even his own wife. With Dr. Helen Crawford as the Watson to his Holmes, Chaos must untangle the threads...

Divided into chapters on topics such as specialist hospitals, nursing, infectious diseases and the National Health Service, this account traces the development of our hospitals from Roman times to the present day.

'Hospital Babylon' is an in-depth, amusing and highly insightful expose of the extraordinary world of modern medicine. It will take the reader on a journey through the various departments and wards where babies are made, thighs are reduced, noses straightened and spare kidneys are flown in from the Indian subcontinent.

Dot the hospital visiting dog helps staff and patients at the hospital feel better but when she gets hurt rescuing a patient, she discovers how important visitors really are.

Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife reveals the highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit, from the mother who tries to give herself a DIY caesarean to the baby born into witness protection, and from surprise infants that arrive down toilets to ones that turn up in the lift. But there is a problem; the system which is supposed to support the midwives and the women they care for is...

Plucky V.A.D. (Voluntary Aid Detachment) Olive Dent served two years of the Great War caring for soldiers in a tented hospital on the Western Front. She wrote this vivid account of her time there and, though a classic memoir of the period, it was long forgotten until BBC researchers working on 'The Crimson Field' rediscovered it, and pored over it for historical detail and dramatic atmosphere. Reproduced here in full, Olive's journal tells a real-life...