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Jayne begins her morning shift as sister on the liver ward where of the patients suffer from problems caused by alcohol. The car parking team are finding it hard to keep the traffic showing up at the hospital moving and dealing with a consultant’s car that has rolled over a bank and needs towing back up. Dan attempts to help a patient called Michael who is unconscious and fitting.

Martin and John work in maintenance and also double up as the hospital fire and rescue team. Helicopters can’t land until they are in their positions so when they get a call about an incoming emergency, they have to drop everything. Susie is one of the most experienced A&E consultants and one minute she is treating a man with a life threatening haemorrhage, the next she is attempting to work out why 2-year-old Frank has been fitting.

Episode 3 features ex-bouncers Scott and Malcolm who swapped the pubs and clubs of Derby to become hospital security guards 10 years ago. From helping to restrain patients in A&E to looking for a missing suicidal patient, the security guard’s never know what lies behind their next call. We also meet two nurses: Becki is a nurse on the neonatal ward, who forms a close bond with parents Keira and Dan who have been in hospital since their baby Jacob was born 14 weeks premature. Lee is a sister in A&E, who is about to clock off a tough shift on A&E when she has to deal with an unusual arrival in the ambulance bay – a woman giving birth in the back of a car.

The final visit to the staff and patients of Royal Derby Hospital. Surgeon Gill faces the difficult decision of whether to operate on cancer patient Maldwyn, while in maternity, trainee midwife Janine meets expectant parents Alison and Alan, who have opted for a planned C-section after losing their daughter the previous year. Cardiology patient Derek has put his holiday plans on hold as he awaits an operation to fit a stent in his heart, and catering manager Paul reveals what it takes to prepare and distribute thousands of meals across the hospital.