Getting On

Ward B4 is a world of slips, trips and hips, where health care is at its least glamorous. Sister Den Flixter, Nurse Kim Wilde and Dr Pippa Moore assemble for ward round. The daily grind of new admissions and discharges has begun, but Hilary Loftus, the new male modern matron, has just started work and an unsavoury stool sample and a dead patient give him cause for concern.

Pippa is preparing her research paper and Den and Kim deal with a male referral, but it is problem patient Ivy who dominates the day. Aggressive and deeply unpleasant, she sets a chain reaction in motion that sees Hilary in tears and Kim in trouble. Elsewhere on the ward, life and death continues as normal, but with the MRSA statistics up it seems another crisis is just around the corner.

The legacy of the Ivy fight has left a problem; Hilary has accused Kim of making an inappropriate remark during the fight - she called him a fat nance - and is insisting on disciplinary action. Kim has called in her union rep to defend her. The meeting does little to sort out the mess.

There have been some changes on ward B4; Kim has been on a retraining course following the incident with Hilary, who's been on a self appraisal journey which has seen him lose weight but still not accept Kim's apology. Elsewhere, Pippa's stool research is onto its next phase while Den is juggling money alongside her off-on relationship with Hilary.

The appearance of Dr Kersley hints at changes for B4. Vag-At research is underway and the staff each has their own problems to deal with, that is until Dr Moore's French press steals the show.

Hilary (still not accepting Kim's apology) persuades her to do a night shift on B4 when he finds himself short staffed with no notice. Kim looks forward to a quiet few hours, but when Den arrives it's not long before a full blown row erupts. Pippa is treating a patient who gives her pause for thought about her own dwindling fertility.