Holby#Holby City Hospital
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Holby is a fictional city in the United Kingdom, the setting for the BBC medical dramas Casualty and Holby City, and the police drama HolbyBlue. It is based on the real city of Bristol, where Casualty was formerly filmed, and is notionally located in the fictional county of Wyvern in South West England, not far from the border with Wales.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/casualty/fast_facts/fast_facts_62.html|title=Casualty - Fast Facts|publisher=BBC Online|access-date=17 November 2007}} While Casualty has been filmed in Cardiff since 2011, Holby City was filmed in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Both shows are set in the same fictional Holby City Hospital. Holby has an airport called Holby International.{{cite episode | title=A History of Violence | series=27 | airdate=6 July 2013 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036s3w1}}
Holby City Hospital
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| Org/Group = Holby City NHS Foundation Trust
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| Region = Wyvern
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Holby City Hospital is the fictional hospital within the city in which Casualty and Holby City are set. It is based on the Bristol Royal Infirmary which the original script writers spent time observing in the 1980s in order to garner ideas for Casualty.Hilary Kingsley(1995) Casualty The Inside Story, Penguin Books, {{ISBN|0-14-024902-8}} Although both shows are set in the same hospital, Casualty is primarily filmed in Cardiff, whilst Holby City was filmed in Hertfordshire at BBC Elstree Centre.{{cite news|author=Juliette Garside|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/nbbc121.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023041740/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/21/nbbc121.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2007|title=EastEnders evicted in latest BBC cost cut|publisher=The Daily Telegraph|date=21 October 2007|access-date=17 November 2007}}
The indoor shots for the first series of Casualty were filmed at BBC Television Centre in London.Rachel Silver(1998) Casualty, Behind The Scenes, BBC Books, {{ISBN|0-563-38467-0}}
By Series 2, a permanent interior set was built in a warehouse on Kingsland trading estate in the St. Philip's area of Bristol, close to where the exterior shots of the A&E and hospital were filmed.{{cite news |author= |date=19 August 2011|title=TV's Casualty in Cardiff move after 25 years in Bristol|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-14548224.amp |work= |location= |publisher=BBC News |access-date=6 January 2025}}
The exterior shots of the hospital used in Casualty were formerly filmed at the City of Bristol College; location filming later moved to an industrial estate in Lawrence Hill, close to the interior set of the hospital."[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096555/locations Casualty Filming Locations, IMDB]". URL last accessed 22 April 2008
It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC was considering moving the filming of Casualty to studios in Cardiff. On 26 March 2009, the BBC confirmed the move.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/26/casualty.shtml |title=Press Office - BBC confirms Casualty move from Bristol to Cardiff area |publisher=BBC |access-date=26 March 2009}} Since late 2011, Casualty has been filmed on a purpose built studio and backlot set at the BBC Roath Lock Studios in Cardiff Bay.{{cite web|url=http://roathlock.com/index.php/casualty|title=Roath Lock Studios - Casualty|publisher=BBC Wales|access-date=2011-09-12|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911210943/http://www.roathlock.com/index.php/casualty|archive-date=11 September 2011|df=dmy-all}}
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In Casualty, the primary location is the hospital's Emergency Department (formerly referred to as Accident and Emergency), which has its own adjoining Clinical Decisions Unit, introduced in Series 25, Episode 4 "Only the Lonely".{{cite web|title=BBC One - Casualty, Series 25, Only the Lonely|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v1nmg|publisher=BBC|accessdate=7 February 2025}} Downton and Perry psychiatric wards are shown at Holby in Series 25, Episode 23 "Place of Safety".{{cite web|title=BBC One - Casualty, Series 25, Place of Safety|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ylrc0|publisher=BBC|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Holby City is set between the hospital's Acute Assessment Unit (ground floor), and Keller (third floor) and Darwin (sixth floor) wards, providing General and Cardiothoracic surgical care respectively.{{cite web|title=Holby City (an episode guide)|url=https://epguides.com/holbycity/guide.shtml|publisher=epguides.com|accessdate=7 February 2025}} Holby expanded by adding "HolbyCare", a private healthcare ward led by Michael Spence adjacent to the existing Intensive Care Unit on the fifth floor (Series 10, Episode 14 "Stolen").{{cite web|title=BBC One - Holby City, Series 10, Stolen|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008pwlq|publisher=BBC|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Former storylines have also focused around the hospital's Otter ward, providing pediatric care, as well as its maternity ward. Otter ward has not featured in the show since Series 4, whilst the maternity ward ceased usage as a primary location in Series 8.
In Casualty@Holby City, Nightingale, a mothballed wing of the hospital, is used to perform a major heart transplant on a small girl by Connie Beauchamp and Harry Harper while the hospital burns.{{cite web|title=BBC Programme Index - Casualty @ Holby City|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1d6f8427ae09d99607911ac8e70689f3|publisher=BBC|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Other wards of the hospital to be referenced include Berkley, Clifton,{{cite web|title=Casualty Street Life (TV Episode 1990) - IMDb|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0537489/?ref_=ttep_ep_4|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Curie (disused),{{cite web|title=Casualty Breaking the Spell: Part Two (TV Episode 2001) - IMDb|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0537185/|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=7 February 2025}} Florence, Geraint Morris,{{cite news|last=Macro|first=Jen|date=21 September 2016|
title=BBC Blog Hospital visit: Behind the scenes of Casualty|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Faboutthebbc%2Fentries%2F7516b055-1caa-426d-a721-c0f97d3c7fdd|publisher=BBC|accessdate=22 January 2025}} Hitchcock (psychiatric), Linnaeus, Swift and St Clares as well as the paediatric, neonatal, burns and neuro ICUs.
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Holby Ambulance Service
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Holby Ambulance Service is the fictional ambulance service which serves Holby City Hospital - also appearing in the two hospital dramas Casualty and Holby City. Although the ambulance service was only seen in Holby City very rarely, Casualty has featured paramedic characters as a key part of the cast since the show's 1986 conception.{{cite web|title=Casualty Gas (TV episode 1986)|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0537293/fullcredits/cast?ref_=m_ttfc_3|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Holby South
Holby South is the fictional police station in which HolbyBlue was based in its two series run.{{cite web|title=BBC One - Holby Blue, Episode 1|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007d0nt|publisher=BBC|accessdate=7 February 2025}}
Trivia
Another fictional Holby is the setting for the Danish TV soap Ugeavisen ("The Weekly Paper"), made by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) and first shown in 52 weekly episodes in 1990-91. DR described this Holby as a "medium-sized provincial town, a good hour's drive from Copenhagen".[http://www.dr.dk/Bonanza/serie/Drama/Ugeavisen.htm Ugeavisen on the DR archive site Bonanza] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722060545/http://www.dr.dk/Bonanza/serie/Drama/Ugeavisen.htm |date=22 July 2015 }}
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