After the BBC's decision to cancel Doctors a year prior, it was confirmed that the soap opera would transmit its final episode in December 2024, although it was brought forward by a month.

It focused on the comeuppance of established villain Graham Elton (Alex Avery), as well as the conclusion of a long-running storyline that had seen the fictional Mill Health Centre struggling to find funds to keep running.

She explains that Graham Elton (Alex Avery) has ruined the atmosphere at the Mill Health Centre due to his treatment of staff, homophobia and forcing people into quitting their jobs, as well as his physical attack on Scarlett that she only told Zara about.

Despite a recent fall and suffering from functional neurological disorder (FND), Zara becomes determined to get Graham out of the Mill, despite his payment for partnership having cleared that morning.

She meets with Emma Reid (Dido Miles), Sid Vere (Ashley Rice), Suni Bulsara (Rahul Arya), Michelle Walton (Joanna Bending), Rosie Colton (Janice Connolly), Al Haskey (Ian Midlane) and Luca McIntyre (Ross McLaren) at the Icon restaurant.

The decision was made due to the financial strain of moving the set from Selly Oak to Digbeth as part of BBC Birmingham's ventures to create a new base for their productions.

Lee hinted that his character Bear Sylvester would "band together with everyone else to defeat a common enemy", with was revealed to be Graham Elton (Alex Avery).

[7] The production team had planned for Graham to be a long-running villain on the series, but due to the soap's cancellation, they knew they had to wrap it up within a short timeframe.

[8] The mother of regular cast member Kia Pegg appeared as an extra and became the final patient Scarlett Kiernan rolls her eyes at, a long-running character trait of hers.

[10] "Story of the day" patients Carson Black (Shaun Prendergast) and Bev Dartnall (Tupele Dorgu) were named after the first two producers of Doctors to honour their work in shaping the series.

Niall Fraser, the director of the episode, admitted that the final scenes took around four hours to film, which was an usually long amount of time for Doctors.

[1] The publication agreed with Radio Times in that Doctors stayed "true to its roots, throwing in a baby-birth crisis and a spot of ear wax irrigation (yum) to keep us on our toes as ends were tied right, left and centre".

The Daily Telegraph felt that the BBC had made a mistake in cancelling Doctors and discredited the network for its underpromotion of the show's final week.