While Ben and his new partner, Scott are trapped in the path of a deadly blaze, the hospital staff are crying out for a cool change. Terri makes a big decision about her future while nursing a man with severe burn injuries and Connor finds it difficult working with Bron after his attempt to woo her fails.

Connor, Bron and Jared don't know what has hit them when they come up against Terri's replacement, Kate Larsen. They soon realise that this nursing unit manager has very different ideas about how Ward 17 should be run.

In the late stages of a terminal disease and 38 weeks pregnant, Sarah wants to go home to organise her daughter's fifth birthday party. When she goes into labour in the ambulance, a battle ensues to keep mother and baby alive. Jared is forced to make a decision about his career. Connor, Bron and Kylie prepare to celebrate Jared's birthday.

Mitch diagnoses a gifted ballerina with scoliosis, forcing her to make a choice between her health and a career. Bron is looking after Brett Addison, a former patient who is booked in for spinal surgery. Connor surprises Jodi with flowers and finds her reaction not at all what he expected.

Sarah's health is failing fast and the fight to keep her alive through the compensation case is taking an emotional toll on Mitch and Kate. Bron's gambling debts land her in trouble with a loan shark. Tempers fray between Scott and Ben when they are called to a biscuit factory where a worker has collapsed.

Mitch admits a woman in her mid-thirties, whom he suspects has been brutally raped, possibly by multiple attackers. During her care, Mitch and Connor discover the case is more complex than initially thought. Luke comes into conflict with Claudia following the death of a recently-discharged patient. Meanwhile, Jodi finally breaks her moody silence.

Mitch is forced to realise he is not so different from a hypertensive potential stroke victim whose high-risk condition is largely caused by work, diet and lack of exercise. Connor defies a senior surgeon. Ben comes to the rescue of a timid, slow young man.

Mitch and Von correct a diagnosis done on a patient by an Indian doctor using an internet website. Bron comforts a young woman who was born with ambiguous genitalia. Kate gives medication to the wrong patient. Jared is getting on everyone's nerves by making sure everyone is doing their jobs to perfection.

Ian Hanrahan arrives to undergo corrective surgery for a minor hernia. However, things do go badly wrong when Ian has a completely unforeseen reaction to the anesthetic. Ian comes out of the routine operation in a vegetative state and there seems to be little hope of any improvement. Ben and Scott are called out to attend a young woman who has collapsed, in extreme pain, at a train station. Meanwhile, Bron is battling with a difficult patient who, despite being discharged, is refusing to leave hospital.

Mitch tries to organise the best heart surgeon for a patient, but everything goes wrong. Ben and Scott are called out to a patient during a domestic dispute. A patient catches on fire during a procedure Luke is carrying out. Administration needs to reduce costs associated with All Saints so corners are being cut and patients are being put at risk.

Connor stands in for Kate on a quiet night on the ward. He and Bron fool around as Jared tries to study, but then things start to go wrong. Meanwhile, Von watches her friend Kate finally succumb to the horrors of alcoholism.

When two teenagers are brought onto the ward following an explosion at a State Boy's Home, their different attitudes lead to a number of wrong conclusions. Rose returns to work, with the added stress of leaving her baby in the crèche for the first time.

Bron comes face-to-face with her estranged gather while she is nursing a teenage girl with heart disease. Everybody has suspicions about how this girl has contracted the disease, but only Bron knows the truth.

Connor wrestles with the fear that his mother has contracted a very serious illness. Bron confronts her own issues with her childhood and her father when a man is admitted after slashing his wrists. Scott organises a birthday treat for Ben - a raunchy on-stage tango with a lingerie waitress.

Connor wrestles with the fear that his mother has contracted a very serious illness. Bron confronts her own issues with her childhood and her father when a man is admitted after slashing his wrists. Scott organises a birthday treat for Ben - a raunchy on-stage tango with a lingerie waitress.

Ben and Bron have spent their first night together, but can Ben put the past behind him? A couple are distraught when the father accidentally knocks down and kills their two-year-old baby. Von and Kylie nurse a man who likes to be treated as a baby.

Mitch diagnoses gangrene in an independent homeless lady. When she rejects medical attention, Mitch finds it hard to respect her decision. Bron nurses a young backpacker who has lived with epilepsy for most of his life. After a failed lunch date, Ben finally catches up with Bron. Jared arrives at work to find the medical fund-raising calendar has gone on sale.

Mitch diagnoses gangrene in an independent homeless lady. When she rejects medical attention, Mitch finds it hard to respect her decision. Bron nurses a young backpacker who has lived with epilepsy for most of his life. After a failed lunch date, Ben finally catches up with Bron. Jared arrives at work to find the medical fund-raising calendar has gone on sale.

Ben and Scott arrive at a low security prison to find a siege in progress with a guard, a nurse and another inmate held hostage in the prison clinic. A post-op patient lands Connor in trouble with Luke. Terri reveals to Von that she is worried Dr Pussle will want to progress the relationship faster than she can handle.

Ben and Scott are caught in the middle of a siege when they are called out to a prison. Meanwhile, Luke is angry at what he perceives as a lack of patient care on Connor's part; and Terri confides in Von about her fears for her new relationship.

Von never makes it to the charity ball when her little friend Zac's condition worsens. Terri and Malcolm bond at the ball, but Terri is shocked to discover that Rose suffers from bi-polar disease. Kylie drinks too much, Scott puts more moves on Andrea and Luke's date is viciously raped outside the ball.

Mitch is faced with the fact that he may loose his career over a case where drugs are involved when he perscribes Marijuanna to a patient in pain. Terri offers her support to mitch concerening Rose's Bi-polar but Mitch dosen't take it to well.

On a day when the stars seem to be coming true, Connor tries his luck with love and Bron takes a gamble, which ends up being one of the worst mistakes of her life. However, for two of their patients the stars come through with their predictions of love and fortune.

Mitch faces a double crisis that threatens his professional future when the legal fallout arrives from giving a patient marijuana. Bron battles to save her relationship with Ben after her gambling relapse. Connor's life may be forever changed after receiving an amazing gift from a former patient but it is a current patient that helps put things in perspective. Bron nurses a young woman who struggles with disclosing the details of her illness to the staff. The ambo's bring in a man whose wife tries to coverup the cause of his injuries and find themselves in the middle of an unlikely love triangle.

Mitch is struggling with his marriage, and faces up to a woman who is wrongly told that her husband has died. A visit from the Minister of Health throws Luke into a nasty situation when an organ donor's secret is discovered.

Pussle and Terri's future together is uncertain after Mitch and Pussle's arguments over a patient force their mutual jealousy over Terri out into the open.

Scott is put to the test when Ben blacks out on the job. An emotionally distraught Bron then puts Ben's life at risk by undermining Luke's confidence before surgery. A man's life is thrown into turmoil when told he is terminally ill, only to later discover that there was a mix-up and he isn't going to die.

Mitch and Roses' relationship reaches a crisis when Mitch no longer responds to his wife's manipulations.

Connor is speechless when he bumps into Jodi pole-dancing in a club. Terri finds another nurse rape victim and to Von's surprise, the battle-axe she is nursing turns out to have the key to soothing the rape victim's pain. Mitch is driven mad by Rose's mother. While Terri would love to help, Mitch makes it clear that she's the last person who can do so. Luke pulls off a tricky operation.

An ex-priest undergoes a near-death experience and returns to life claiming there is no God, stirring up Terri's emotions. Mitch is frustrated when Rose turns up at work and refuses to talk to him, and Lucy is not in the crèche. Jodi arrives back at work, but wonders if she has made the right decision. Ben gets the all clear to return to work.

An exhausted Jared is making mistakes on the job and tragically risks Terri's life. Terri's accident is potentially fatal and for Mitch, this is almost the end of a bad day. Mitch receives some devastating news. A man suffering with tumours from second generation Agent Orange Syndrome looks to euthanasia for a way out.

Scott puts his life and his job on the line to save the victims of a gunman's violent rampage through a quiet suburban street.

Terri is in tears over Connor's departure and as Mitch comforts her their true feelings for each other surface.

Von has spotted what is going on between Mitch and Terri. Mitch is conveniently preoccupied with a mysterious bond between twin patients.

Mitch's desperate search for his wife and daughter turns into a serious incident for the police. Terri is so worried about Mitch, it's affecting her work and she makes a mistake on the job that could cost the lives of Von and a patient. Scott realises just how badly the tragic events of the last few weeks have affected him.

Special guest DAWN FRASER visits Ward 17 to try and re-motivate a patient who has given up on his life.

Mitch and Luke fight to save the life of a bride caught in a car crash, and there are echoes of wedding bells in Ward 17. Meanwhile, it's Mitch and Rose's first anniversary party, and everyone's invited - except for Terri.

Terri is caught between her affections for three men - Mitch, Malcolm and Dom. She finally decides who she wants to be with.

Ben finds the tragic results of a three year old boy who was left alone while his mum played the poker machines.

Von is nursing a terminal patient, a cross-dresser who wants to go out in style, but his wife doesn't know about her husband's secret. Ben vows to find and destroy the rapist who nearly got Bron. Kylie Preece finally stands up to Dr Murphy. Lyle accidentally throws out a patient's thyroid gland.

The rapist strikes again, kidnapping Bron and leaving a young nurse dead. In mortal danger, Bron is shocked when she discovers the identity of the serial rapist. Ward 17 is threatened with quarantine after a breakout of golden staph. Luke is forbidden to operate on patients after being suspected as a carrier.

Mitch presents a patient's husband with an unenviable predicament: who does he most want to save — his wife or his unborn baby? Scott is confronted by his own feelings for Rebecca as he battles to save her life after a bomb explosion. Ben's surprise marriage proposal to Bron doesn't turn out the way he'd expected. Luke is deeply moved by an innovative, yet risky, surgical procedure on a Parkinson's patient. Malcolm finally reveals his secret to Terri which forces them to decide their future.

Mitch's marriage reaches a final crisis. Meanwhile, Terri comes to the rescue of Rose and is shocked by what she finds.