Tallulah and Max were both born prematurely and live in hospital. Mimi has a heart defect. Their parents and doctors face extremely difficult decisions about treatment and quality of life.
Incredible advances in medical science's ability to prolong life have huge cost implications for a financially strained NHS but prompt complex questions relating to quality of life. This powerful observational documentary series provides an intimate, sensitive and heart-breaking account of the lives of children who can be kept alive but probably never cured. Filmed over the year when the Charlie Gard case gripped the nation, the programmes delve deep into both sides of this emotive debate, asking if it's ever right to let a baby die. Based at Southampton Children's Hospital's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, it features the parents of children and the doctors who care for them. Ellie-May, who's 12, has multiple, complex problems. Although she's quadriplegic, her mother believes that she has a good quality of life, and has fought the system to get her daughter the treatment she needs to survive.