However Leonard soon left to pursue research down South, and when he returned, was shocked Gina had moved on to Hone Ropata (Temuera Morrison).
After a brief flirtation with Meredith, Leonard eventually found a home with Kristy Knight (Angela Dotchin) and Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson).
Alex had a brief fling with 17-year-old Stuart Neilson (Martin Henderson) but fell back in love with Michael and the two renewed their vows.
However it was soon revealed that Alex had been left with some brain damage that resulted in her struggling to maintain her emotions and make logical decisions during peak times of stress.
Recent graduate Jo seemed like an odd choice until it was accidentally revealed that she was a family friend of Director of Nursing Carrie Burton (Lisa Crittenden).
Desperate to escape from her turbulent home life caused by her mentally unstable mother and tearaway brother Mark, Jo moves into Alison’s old room at Steve (Andrew Binns) and Sam Aleni’s (Rene Naufahu) house.
Paul’s behaviour continued to escalate until an incident in the supply closest which led to Jo making a sexual harassment complaint to both the clinic and the Human Rights Commission.
Having grown tired of Steve’s antics as a landlord, Jo moved into the spare room at Kristy Knight (Angela Dotchin) and Stuart Neilson’s share-house just before Christmas.
This resulted in Paul returning back into her life as he tried to manipulate Jo into dropping her complaint, claiming that he had changed due to counselling and his wife’s pregnancy.
When old nursing school friend Rebecca joined the ambulance service based out of the clinic, Jo invited her to move into the share-house.
Jo found conflict with Kristy’s boyfriend Greg Feeney (Tim Balme) when he moved into their home and used Chris to fuel his drug dealing business.
Upon their return, Declan purchased a local building and renovated it into a bar for he and Carrie to help bring in some extra money for their family and became the manager, hiring several staff related to the clinic.
She returned months later completely rehabilitated but new Director of Nursing - Paul Churchill (Simon Prast) soon recognised her as a prostitute and used this as blackmail to stop her from interfering with his manipulation of Jo Jordan (Greer Robson).
This revelation soon came in handy when Guy Warner (Craig Parker) wanted McKenna’s approval to run an outreach program for sex workers.
In 1994, more of Carmen’s past came to light with the arrival of her step-brother Greg Feeney (Tim Balme) and assisted him in withdrawing from a drug addiction cold turkey at her home.
Not long after moving in, flatmates Steve and TP die in a car accident, and Carmen was on hand to support the now widow Sam Aleni (Rene Naufahu).
When Carmen innocently claimed a dead patient's lottery ticket, she discovered she had won $250,000 and guiltily spent some of it before funding the construction of a memorial to Steve and TP.
Carmen used a significant part of the money to buy into the clinic when it adopted a cooperative model, and paid for a patient to get a liver transplant in Australia.
Guy tracked down Carmen’s ailing father Vic Roberts in late 1994, and was initially reluctant to interact with him much to the judgement of the clinic’s staff.
In 1995, following a bout of food poisoning Carmen discovered she was pregnant and in October gave birth to Tuesday Warner (Kelly Tate) amidst a massive storm.
However, Guy (Craig Parker) discovered in 1993 that Bruce Warner (Ken Blackburn) had covered up her birth in fear of the shame she would bring to the family.
Amanda returned in 2005 when her carer, Liam Todd (Campbell Cooley) kidnapped her from her hospital and took her to Chris and his wife Toni (Laura Hill) in an attempt to show them she was more than a vegetable.
Chris and Toni eventually decided to have Amanda put into a local home but surprised all by allowing Liam visiting rights.
Laurie first showed up looking for information regarding an associate of Declan Kennedy's (Kevin J. Wilson) named Don Bligh (Michael Mizrahi) being murdered.
Nick Harrison (Karl Burnett) realised Marj was lonely and surprised her by organising a reconciliation with Laurie on New Years Eve.
He was stood down when a young homeless boy, Fergus (Paul Ellis) was seriously injured under his watch though he was cleared when Emily Devine (Michaela Rooney) confessed.
In December a truck crashed through the clinic and Laurie helped the survivors but suffered a huge panic attack, leading to the end of his career.
Paul quickly showed an interest in Jo (Greer Robson) that turned into sexual harassment and escalated to assaulting her in the supply closet.
Recognising Jo was in trouble, both Carmen (Theresa Healey) and Jaki (Nancy Brunning) try to intervene individually only to be end up being blackmailed.
Nonetheless Paul returned the following February and tried to manipulate Jo into dropping her complaint, claiming that he had changed due to counselling and his wife’s pregnancy.