| Summary: | Returning to the wards of London’s Great Ormond Street hospital, this series observes the decision making among the various highly-skilled teams working on the wards to see the many challenges they face at the cutting edge of children’s medicine. Following challenging individual cases, this third series reveals the complexity and many difficult decisions involved in research, clinical medicine and management of perhaps the best children’s hospital in the world. Great Ormond Street Hospital is the last chance for children in the UK whose lungs are failing because of cystic fibrosis and other conditions. In a few very severe cases each year, their only hope of survival is to undergo a radical and risky step - a double lung transplant. Charlie is nine years old and has cystic fibrosis. For most of his life he has managed to cope but in recent months his condition has rapidly deteriorated. Doctors and his family - and Charlie himself - will need to make a decision quickly. Jess is 14, and was told she should be listed for a lung transplant two years ago. But she was too scared. She made her own decision to take a risk and delay the operation. But has she left it too late? Chloe is 11 and has already been waiting for new lungs for nearly a year. Louie is a few days short of his second birthday. Doctors are considering making him the youngest patient ever to have a lung transplant at Great Ormond Street.
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