Island Medics

In this episode Brian, an engineer on an oil rig, is airlifted by helicopter to the hospital with suspected serious neck injuries. Coastguard and lifeboat teams are scrambled to the aid of a pleasure boat whose propeller has been fouled just feet from Shetland's jagged rocks. And the ambulance team race to the aid of a former nurse with a suspected stroke.

An oil worker with a severely injured back is helicoptered off his rig miles off shore and brought to the hospital. We also follows a GP with Britain's most unusual commute, as he takes to the skies to carry out a clinic on Fair Isle, the country's most remote community. And Eddie, a keen motorcyclist, comes into the hospital after colliding with a seagull while riding his motorcycle at speed.

The islands' new crop of junior doctors arrives in Shetland - this episode follows their first days and sees how they adjust to a very different type of medicine from what they are used to. Away from the hospital, a doctor is working on Unst - the most northerly practice in the United Kingdom.

This episode takes a closer look at life for Shetland's new and expectant mothers. In the Gilbert Bain's maternity department, first-time mum-to-be Caitlin has come in as she is eight months pregnant and can't feel her baby moving. They also see a woman who, ten days past her due date, has to be flown from Shetland to the mainland for specialist assistance giving birth.

In this episode, fisherman Brian has to be evacuated by helicopter after inhaling some dangerous chemicals. Away from the wards, Jan and Pete from the Hillswick Wildlife Centre have been alerted to a pilot whale which is in danger of running aground in one of Shetland's 'voes', or inlets. They need to enlist the help of volunteers if their audacious rescue plan is to succeed.

The coastguard is scrambled to rescue a Danish cook who has been taken seriously ill on an oil rig supply vessel far out in the North Sea. The helicopter team have to work closely with the paramedics on the ground to get him safely to A&E so he can get life-saving treatment.

Crofter Andy has an accident with his sheep shears while shearing some of his forty sheep. Nurse Lauren needs to treat Andy's injury so that he can return to his flock. Elsewhere, there is a case that peaks nurse Emma Williamson's interest; patient Alan has arrived in A&E with a protruding pacemaker. Off-shore worker Ryan has been transported by helicopter to the A&E department.

An elderly lady is rushed into hospital with a suspected stroke. Though former nurse Kathleen's symptoms point to a stroke, the investigation by the A&E team sheds new light on her condition. And on the first day of his holiday in the Skerries, Jimmie takes a trip he wasn't looking for when he falls off a wall and ends up in A&E with head injuries.

There is an extra special arrival for maternity receptionist Marie Jamieson - her daughter Sonja is expecting her third child. Marie faces an anxious wait, as she is still working on reception and must wait outside to find out if it is a boy or a girl like everybody else. Nurse Gwen Angus attends to a lady with a nasty head injury. And the Fetlar Islanders receive a visit from a new locum GP.

Schoolboy Bruce runs too many miles and injures his leg. A football match leads to an awkward injury for teenager Saul, but a football tournament makes a great weekend for Dr Lalla and his family. An able seaman is referred by his ship's doctor, barely able to breathe. An unfortunate migraine sufferer develops worrying new symptoms which warrant a brain scan and an anxious overnight stay.