Denise Van Outen joins the cast as new district nurse Kim, a single parent with a shady past who doesn't take kindly to anyone prying into her affairs. Beth begins to have second thoughts as she and Tom prepare to leave the village, especially when friend Hattie reveals she has terminal cancer, and Ozias Harding takes up the reins at the factory once more

Sally is shocked by news of Megan's pregnancy and her mood is soured further by the discovery that Kim already knows about it. Work matters prove just as complicated when the nurses help a teenager in need of a kidney transplant whose health is further threatened by tensions between potential organ donors in her family.