The Royal Today

Over on Middleditch Ward, Adam and Nurse Heather Dunstan are struggling to tend to their patients and have to deal with unruly nineteen-year-old Keeley whose intoxicated boyfriend can't keep his hands off her.

The police arrive at the crime scene and Ormerod informs them Phil, the suspect, is well known to the Hospital due to his mental health and drug dependency issues.

Woods is angry at being disrupted and demands the girls leave They head out of the hospital to get an ice cream and bump into Adam on his way back from the interview.

Note: 1.78m tuned in to this episode Ormerod's first patient is sixty-year-old Barry Kepler, who's just flown in from Australia and arrives at St Aidan's with his daughter Elizabeth after suffering acute abdominal pains on the aeroplane.

Pamela instantly suspects Paul has a case of Leishmaniasis, an infestation caused by sand flies which lay eggs under the skin, leading to ulcers known as 'the Baghdad boil'.

Ormerod (Andrew Scarborough) explains Woods isn't famed for his bedside manner and she reveals she's found it very useful seeing how the wards run from a patient's point of view.

Elsewhere, Woods (Paul Nicholas) is seeing Wendy (Marie Critchley), a patient with a swollen foot who suffers from peripheral Neuropathym - a numbness of the nervous system, which is a common complication of diabetes.

In another part of the ward, Wendy's devoted husband Harry (Gwyn Parry) has come to visit her after her operation, but when Woods approaches him with the fishing hook that was stuck in his wife's foot, he looks puzzled.

Note: 1.38m tuned in to this episode Meanwhile, Norman (Steve Huison) has heard that Max is a big music promoter and abandons his duties to prepare a demo, leaving Kristaps (Jon Lolis) on his own taking patients to theatre, much to the dismay of Woods (Paul Nicholas) who's consequently behind schedule and is going to be late for his golf tournament.

Meanwhile, everyone's unhappy with Jenny (Leah Bracknell) for firing the cleaners, so when she rounds up the nurses and tries to lecture them about Max, Heather (Caroline Carver) snipes back they were too busy cleaning to be able to watch his every move.

Note: 1.31m tuned in to this episode Meanwhile, Adam's (Ben Hull) fed up with working under Jenny's (Leah Bracknell) management, particularly as he's had to stay late to finish off the cleaning.

Over in A&E the paramedics have rushed in with Robert Barry (Luke Broughton), a bridegroom dressed in his morning suit who's admitted after being picked up in the street with severe breathing difficulties.

Despite the absence of a maternity ward at The Royal, Jenny and Adam are forced to assist a young couple, Carl (Jamie Anton) and Michelle (Letty Butler), who arrive ready to give birth.

As the nurses join them in cracking open a bottle of bubbly and eating wedding cake, Carrie tells everyone she's been given tickets to a glamorous champagne gala by her patient Geoff.

Note: 1.30m tuned in to this episode Once inside the hospital, Dr Sarah Chatwin tends to Eunice, and Grace looks guilty as she confesses her mother had a fall earlier in the week.

Note: 1.18m tuned in to this episode In a separate cubicle, Sarah, Heather and Gemma are treating 23-year-old Liam Dooley, a cannabis user who is finding it difficult to breathe.

Note: 1.23m tuned in to this episode As Peter storms off, Kate heads back to the ward and tells Ormerod she's convinced she's got a condition called Myasthenia Gravis which she has researched on the internet.

An angry Adam, who has been observing the way Rob treated Carrie, steps in and asks Mrs Hill to explain why her husband has been sexually harassing his staff.

Note: 1.15m tuned in to this episode Jenny calls a meeting and tells the staff a prisoner, Aidan, is due to be admitted today for a bowel resection.

Adam is clearly unimpressed by Gemma's flirting, but matters take a dramatic turn when a journalist arrives saying that she's heard a convicted child killer has been admitted to the ward.

Pamela is seeing to Andrew, who fractured his pelvis when he fell twenty feet from the roof of his halls, and is shocked when Raymond arrives unconscious with their tutor James, who claims Ray's been injured in a rugby tackle.

However, when Kieran and Pamela break the tragic news to Andrew and Ray they're devastated and reveal that James was asked to leave the marines for being a bully and he was the one who facilitated and encouraged the Dare Day, which involves students climbing to the highest point and initialling it.

Vijay is stumped when he presents the staff with a photo of Gemma pole dancing and she declares that she loves the picture and unashamedly admits that she did it to make money at college.

When John arrives he's stunned to find Alison fully clad as a stripper and tries to control his temper as he tells the embarrassed nurses to throw the costume in the bin.

Meanwhile, in theatre, the team working on Rachel suspect she is a victim of domestic abuse, Ormerod speaks to Serena about her home life but she won't reveal anything.

Note: 1.08m tuned in to this episode Ormerod is tending to Cathy, a regular patient who's an alcoholic and is admitted to the Royal on an almost weekly basis due to various injuries incurred whilst inebriated.

Cathy reveals to Isla that she hasn't always been a drunkard, she used to lead a respectable life and ran an accountancy company with her husband, but when he died her world fell apart.

Note: 1.07m tuned in to this episode Seventeen-year-old model Zara Redman is rushed into casualty, dressed as a Vegas showgirl, with severe pains in her stomach.

The doctors calm Carol down and, when Jenny asks her if Dale would have wanted to see her at war with Charlie, she decides to forgive her father and they're united in grief.

Note: 1.07m tuned in to this episode When Rosie comes in with her varicose veins, she quietly tells Norman that they need to talk, before introducing him to her husband Terry.