Television cameras are being trained on the A&E department of the region's largest hospital for a new documentary series.

A production company is working on a new show that will focus on the emergency nurses of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.

The series, which is being produced for ITV by Crackit Productions, will focus on the work and home lives of the nurses based in the busy A&E department.

Filming for the show, Emergency Nurses: A&E Stories, began at the end of March and is scheduled to last for 10 weeks.

Bosses at the hospital have reassured patients using the department that nobody will be included without their permission.

A spokesman for the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said: "Filming will be taking place over 10 weeks and there are very strict protocols around patient consent and confidentiality.

"There will be a two-stage process of consent with patients and carers.

"Only footage of patients who have been able to give consent will be retained and used and will anonymise any patients or staff who have not expressly consented to be filmed."

The show is being made for ITV Be and ITV X.

It comes after a period in which the hospital, like others across the country, has been facing high demand, with patients facing delays for treatment.

However, efforts to ease pressures at the N&N have seen the A&E department enter the national top 10 for shortest patient waits.

It is not the first time the department has been featured in a television documentary.

In 2008, it was the subject of an eight-part series on BBC Three called Bizarre ER, which was filmed over the course of five months that year.

The series was later broadcast again on E4.