Thora Hird won a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for best actress for her performance. Pete Postlethwaite was nominated for a BAFTA award for best actor.
Winner for best drama at the International Emmy Awards 1999.
Winner - Peabody Awards 2000.
Jennifer Luckraft who plays a nurse, and Tom Higgins who play a doctor in this, played a nursing assistant and doctor respectively in Children's Ward (1989).