Staffing problems hit the department as several nurses call in sick. The remaining team are forced to juggle extra patients to make sure every emergency is dealt with. The pressure takes its toll on Sister Benita, and she is herself admitted to a bay for treatment.

Eccentric uncle Dr Julian Humphrey works alongside Sister Benita and a team of almost 30 medical staff to treat 200-plus emergency patients, from a miner suffering from a suspected heart attack, and a worried 98-year-old who needs a CT scan, to a two-year-old struggling to breath.