Through the eyes of Britain's ambulance staff, this episode explores the effects of alcohol from middle-class professionals to young drinkers to long-term alcoholics.

This episode follows paramedics as they do their best to help patients with mental health problems.

This episode focuses on call-outs to patients fighting for life, and the medical, ethical and emotional challenges their care creates, for the paramedics, friends and family who may be left behind.

This episode focuses on the older generation who now account for two-thirds of ambulance calls. With 11 million people in Britain over the age of 65, the NHS is feeling a greater strain than ever.

This episode focusses on babies, from births to over-protective parents, and from very poorly children to those facing neglect and abuse.

This episode visits a control centre. Cheshire's ambulance service gets 50% more calls than 10 years ago. Some are life-threatening, some heart-warming. Others are less urgent, like sore eyelashes.

This episode follows police and paramedics dealing with the effects of legal highs, from a regular user coughing up blood in a bus stop to a granddad who has reacted badly to the legal highs he bought online.

This episode meets the police officers dealing with growing numbers of problems between neighbours, from noise, feuds and burnt-out cars to reports of a man acting suspiciously and scaring children.

This episode explores the police and ambulance staff's increasing role in dealing with issues arising from mental health problems, including evaluating whether people who are behaving unusually are okay.

This episode explores the lives of people who the police and paramedics regularly meet, from persistent shoplifters who no longer see prison as a deterrent to people who struggle with alcoholism.

Focusing on issues around immigration in Cheshire, this episode features a heated arrest at a supermarket and the rise in racially-aggravated incidents during weekends.