Jac blames her horrific mistake on Chrissie!

Jac blames her horrific mistake on Chrissie!
Jac blames her horrific mistake on Chrissie!

Ambitious surgeon Jac Naylor proves just how ruthless she is this week when, in a bid to save her own skin and secure a promotion, she potentially puts nurse Chrissie's career in jeopardy. Distracted by her job interview for Ric's old job, Jac makes a major botch-up in surgery that nearly kills her patient Patrick. When Jac reads the pre-op notes, she realises she misread a figure noted by Chrissie which showed that Patrick's blood was too thin to operate. In order to save her own bacon, Jac tampers with the notes and makes it look like Chrissie made a mistake and not her. A stunned Chrissie is unsure of herself, tired from juggling motherhood and nursing and is grateful when Jac suggests they keep her 'mistake' between them. But will Jac's duplicity come back to haunt her? Also this week, Faye has the mother of all breakdowns on the ward. Will Joseph have her sectioned? Meanwhile, Donna attempts to keep Mia hidden from Hanssen.

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.