Kate has started a new Nurse Practitioner course and is full of fresh ideas for the ward. So when a suspected case of anthrax walks through the door she takes charge and puts her staff in quarantine.

After quitting her job at the hospital, Anji has taken the plunge and decided to go travelling around India. Beth is anxious about what life will be like without her: she secretly worries that Anji is the only reason that Lia and Kate are friends with her. And then she catches the two of them having an impromptu drink in the pub without her...

A new addition to the ward, registrar and ex-army doctor Peter Compton, gets a welcome he won't forget when all the guests at a wedding reception turn up at MAU with a nasty case of food poisoning.

With her 30th birthday fast approaching, Kate worries that her age is starting to show in the most unusual of places. She is happy about her budding relationship with new registrar Dr Peter Compton, despite the ridicule she gets from Beth and Lia when they realise she and Peter haven't had sex yet.

Anji is home, is pregnant and has picked up a newfound spirituality on her travels so seems entirely unconcerned about the practicalities of having a baby on her own. Reality bites when she applies for her old job as an HCA. After trying to offer the baby to her sister, Anji comes up with a plan to find her best 'conquest' and tell him he's the dad.

Anji is planning a camping trip with Rob - a plumber at the hospital - until Judith warns her of the dangers of going camping while pregnant. So Rob is left looking for a camping buddy and, much to everyone's surprise and amusement, Beth is cajoled into taking up the challenge.

She's only just got engaged, but Kate is already driving her three friends mad with talk of dresses and flowers. Her fiancé Peter, however, doesn't think there's any need for such fuss.

As her wedding to Peter approaches, Kate takes him to visit what could be their dream home in the country, but he doesn't seem overly impressed.