Street Hospital - First Episode

There's broken glass and broken arms in the first episode of Street Hospital, a reality series following a Wellington Free Ambulance crew as they tend to the boozed, confused and bruised spilling out of Courtenay Place clubs and pubs. Senior paramedic Benjamin guides newbie Steff through a typical Friday night, starting with a quick burger and ending with treating an assault victim. The mixture of youth and excess alcohol means Benjamin is a dab hand with a saline drip, and there's excitement when a woman goes into labour at a nightclub. Street Hospital was made by Wellington production house Gibson Group. 

On Friday and Saturday nights ambulances parked in Wellington's party zone become makeshift hospitals. At the street hospital base paramedics treat the injured where they can, on the spot ... Can they stop the 'smashed and trashed' piling into the hospital's emergency department, and how will our paramedics cope keeping a straight face when everyone else is off theirs?

– Narrator Mike Minogue on the job facing Wellington paramedics, at the start of this episode

Key Cast & Crew

Chris Terpstra

Cinematogapher

Mike Minogue

Narrator

Warren Bradshaw

Cinematogapher

Wayne Vinten

Cinematogapher

Mark Potter

Cinematogapher

Tom Reilly

Director, Field Director