Saving Lives in Cardiff

At Wales' biggest hospital, neurosurgeon George Eralil operates on a 19-year-old with a rare brain tumour, and vascular consultant Lewis Meecham faces a wave of emergency cases.

Paediatric surgeon Oliver Jackson fights to ensure surgery for a 17-week-old baby triplet goes ahead. And a man who was the victim of an attack has an operation to restore his sight.

Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman's sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies at Cardiff's Noah's Ark Children's Hospital add pressure to an already full day of surgery.

In the breast centre at University Hospital Llandough, health worker Michaela has been a patient for almost a decade, treated throughout that time by clinical lead Eleri Davies.

Stuart Quine is under pressure during complex, pioneering robotic surgery, and Indu Deglurkar treats a 51-year-old martial arts competitor shocked to learn he needs open-heart surgery.

A nine-year-old boy faces a complex operation after his condition worsens while on the waiting list. Neurosurgeon Kat Whitehouse tackles a large benign brain tumour, a meningioma, in retired miner Eifion.