A documentary which features Professor David Menon, Head of the Department of Anaesthesia at the School of Clinical Medicine, has won a BAFTA award. The film, entitled ‘Between Life and Death’, was voted as the best ‘single documentary’.

The programme is about critical illness, death, and dying and follows three patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where Professor Menon, a world-leading expert in the treatment of brain injuries, is a consultant at the Neuro Critical Care Unit (NCCU).

Discussing what he hopes the documentary accomplishes, Professor Menon said: “I hope that viewers will take away a sense of the uncertainties that medical teams sometimes face, and why good clinical care remains just as important in these difficult settings.

“I also hope that the programme shows why medicine remains as much an art as a science, why good clinical care requires wisdom as well as knowledge, and that common humanity does not need to be a casualty of ‘high tech’ intensive care.”

The documentary has also won a BAFTA in Wales for the same category as well as the Royal TV Society best single documentary and the Celtic Media Jury prize.

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