Sun, Sea and A&E

Doctors attend to a woman who misjudged her landing during a game of musical chairs and may have suffered a broken back. Meanwhile, two men from Wigan become lost navigating the Majorcan hospital system as they try to find assistance.

is a programme presented as a single episode. It falls within the episode genre and follows a documentary‑style format that tracks real‑world situations inside hospitals. The first storyline follows a woman who, while taking part in a game of musical chairs, miscalculates her landing. The error leaves her with a serious injury that doctors suspect may involve a broken back. Medical staff attend to her, assessing the extent of the damage and determining the appropriate treatment. In a parallel thread, two men from Wigan find themselves bewildered by the complexities of the hospital system on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Their attempts to navigate the local medical services lead them into a maze of appointments, translations and procedural hurdles, leaving them effectively “lost” within the institution. Both narratives are woven together to illustrate how seemingly ordinary activities—a party game and a routine health visit—can quickly turn into challenging medical encounters. The episode juxtaposes the urgent care required for a potential spinal injury with the bureaucratic confusion experienced by visitors abroad, highlighting the varied pressures that health professionals and patients alike can face.