Synopsis

Two years on from the pandemic's outset, the National Health Service confronts a fresh wave of crisis. The new Omicron variant of coronavirus is driving the largest infection surge to date, compounding the usual winter strain and a waiting list that now extends to nearly six million people in England. Panorama reporter Jane Corbin revisits University Hospital Coventry, the location she documented at the pandemic's beginning, to observe its current struggle against a rising tide of cases and a