These included new regulars Ariyon Bakare, Tabitha Wady, Natalie J. Robb, Tom Butcher and Nicole Arumugam, amongst other recurring cast members.
[1] The previous series saw the departures of five regulars: Joanna Helm (Sarah Manners),[2] Ruth Harding (Yvonne Brewster), Rana Mistry (Akbar Kurtha), Steve Rawlings (Mark Frost)[3] and Caroline Powers (Jacqueline Leonard).
[5] Young also promoted recurring nurse Faith Walker (Eva Fontaine) to a regular character.
[6] Tom Butcher debuted a month later as Marc Eliot, a former army major and doctor who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
[9] Alongside the regulars, two recurring characters were introduced: Jude's sister Beth (Valerie Gogan)[10] and Mac McGuire's (Christopher Timothy) son Liam (Tim Matthews).