Shirley tries to duck a challenge, so does her blind patient, but she offers to accept hers if he will accept his. With Sandra, Maureen and Jo she is in the Christmas show and expects to be a disaster.

Shirley invites Dorothy home for lunch to meet her father. They don't get on; and what's more Shirley is in trouble with Sister.

Maureen has a bad time with Nurse Gade. Jo and Sandra have a good time with Bob and Mike. Between the two is Kev Bailey. This time... well, he's in hospital.

Jo has the case of a nice old Mrs Rudolfs and Sandra has the endearing Vera... but the two patients come between them.

Sandra is on another day's field work instruction. She observes something at the Butlers' and is able to put theory into practice ...

Jo has a seemingly straightforward diabetic patient. Shirley simply has a straightforward disagreement with the ward sister.

Jo has had enough of Sandra's untidiness; and she leaves the flat to go home - to more trouble, returning to the hospital unexpectedly.

Sandra has another day ' in the field' as a Health Visitor ... there's sad old Tommy Blackshaw and the new Khan baby ... ordinary but quite dramatic in the daily life of the Health Visitor ...

Night duty is not easy at the best of times, but when Maureen's Senior Ward Nurse doesn't turn up, it all looks very bleak ...

Sandra and her field-work instructor have a call to make ... the Pagets have a health hazard.

Maureen is on Maternity. She gets on well with nice young Evie, but mature, efficient Pamela - that's different.

Shirley has a devious anorexic patient and a boyfriend. Both are a problem.

For Pat , the memory of hospital and a bad night duty is erased by a couple of days on the town with Dad. But she returns to work to be confronted by a very difficult nursing situation and all her doubts return ... more strongly.

Jo is committed to nursing in the community; Shirley in the hospital. Through Mrs Dawson Jo has a chance to see what both hospital and Shirley have to offer ...

Pat has a fella; a patient whom she likes ... and a background ...

Jo's on her first day alone as a community nurse ... two comparatively simple cases of continuing treatment for injuries. But there's not only the physical side of nursing ...