Summary

  • Updates from a hospital emergency department as the NHS marks its 75th anniversary

  • India, seven, arrives at A&E for treatment after cutting her chin in a fall at school

  • Colchester Hospital's A&E department and urgent treatment centre has more than 500 patients through its doors every day

  • About a quarter of the hospital's staff come from overseas

  • Colchester Hospital is one of the leading centres for robotic surgery

  • 'I'm apprehensive but grateful,' says patient set to undergo robotic surgery

  • 'Before the NHS, you only went to hospital as a last resort,' says 93-year-old patient, Ralph Flutter