Another patient has died of MRSA on the ward and McManus is on the rampage. As usual it’s the nurses’ fault and Kate, to Clare’s annoyance, is appointed infection control link nurse. McManus also turns on Jamie who hasn’t been doing as much teaching as he should. Lia seizes the opportunity to suggest that the nurses and doctors drop their traditional rivalry and offers to help him find a suitable patient. When Gary Kahn is admitted with a collapsed lung, however, Lia doesn’t think Gary is up to it and refuses to let Jamie take him. Jamie naturally assumes that Lia’s offer of help was just a further opportunity to wind up the doctors.

Kate has a huge row with Clare when she catches her about to insert a catheter into an elderly patient. Clare takes it as a personal attack but Kate is determined to stop any potential risks of infection. She’s at her wits end as to what might be the cause of the MRSA until she spots McManus attending to a patient, his tie brushing against a bandaged wound. McManus is aghast but is forced to admit he hasn’t washed his tie in years. He gives Kate the offending article and, as an afterthought, asks her to give his coat a good clean too.

Anji is having a particularly bad day when she is invited into the porters’ den for a cup of tea and a biscuit. It’s a real relief to be treated so affectionately by Bob Naylor and his mates and it’s not long before she and Bob are having a friendly shag in the trolley room. The next time Anji escapes down to the porters’ room, Bob is on his way out. He leaves her, instead, in the capable hands of his mate Sonny, whom she also obligingly shags.

Lia’s found the perfect candidate for Jamie’s teaching session but discovers he’s used Gary Kahn. When Gary has an unexpected attack and dies, Lia lets Jamie think that he may have caused it. Jamie’s terrified, until he finds out Gary had undiagnosed Marfan’s syndrome. Unrepentant, Lia points out that if he had only trusted her and treated her like an adult, she would have helped him. They call an uneasy truce.

Anji is still shagging Sonny and Bob but when a third porter, Lee, assumes she’ll also want to shag him, she suddenly realises what they all think of her. She confesses to the girls that she’s been behaving like a slapper and, worse still, has been having unprotected sex all this time. The girls reassure her but book her into an STD clinic to be sure.

Out of the blue, Alex reappears. Having lost her number, he’s been trying to track her down for the last few days. To her dismay, Anji remembers she’s not to have sex until her results come back so her next date with him is very chaste. As they sit on his sofa holding hands it dawns on her that she’s still on the rebound from Callum and that, really, Alex isn’t her type at all.

Despite Kate’s best endeavours, another patient has died on the ward. McManus is completely baffled until he notices that the patient has been catheterised by Clare. Under a barrage of abuse, Clare hands in her resignation and, to the delight of the girls, McManus appoints Kate as the new ward sister.

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