Island Medics

In this episode Brian, an engineer on an oil rig, is airlifted by helicopter to the hospital with suspected serious neck injuries. Coastguard and lifeboat teams are scrambled to the aid of a pleasure boat whose propeller has been fouled just feet from Shetland's jagged rocks. And the ambulance team race to the aid of a former nurse with a suspected stroke.

An oil worker with a severely injured back is helicoptered off his rig miles off shore and brought to the hospital. We also follows a GP with Britain's most unusual commute, as he takes to the skies to carry out a clinic on Fair Isle, the country's most remote community. And Eddie, a keen motorcyclist, comes into the hospital after colliding with a seagull while riding his motorcycle at speed.

The islands' new crop of junior doctors arrives in Shetland - this episode follows their first days and sees how they adjust to a very different type of medicine from what they are used to. Away from the hospital, a doctor is working on Unst - the most northerly practice in the United Kingdom.

This episode takes a closer look at life for Shetland's new and expectant mothers. In the Gilbert Bain's maternity department, first-time mum-to-be Caitlin has come in as she is eight months pregnant and can't feel her baby moving. They also see a woman who, ten days past her due date, has to be flown from Shetland to the mainland for specialist assistance giving birth.

In this episode, fisherman Brian has to be evacuated by helicopter after inhaling some dangerous chemicals. Away from the wards, Jan and Pete from the Hillswick Wildlife Centre have been alerted to a pilot whale which is in danger of running aground in one of Shetland's 'voes', or inlets. They need to enlist the help of volunteers if their audacious rescue plan is to succeed.

The coastguard is scrambled to rescue a Danish cook who has been taken seriously ill on an oil rig supply vessel far out in the North Sea. The helicopter team have to work closely with the paramedics on the ground to get him safely to A&E so he can get life-saving treatment.