Josie Lawrence guest stars!

Josie Lawrence guest stars!
Josie Lawrence guest stars! (Image credit: PA Archive/PA Photos)

Comedienne and actress Josie Lawrence guest stars this week as Mrs Haines, the headmistress of a local school. When one of her teenage pupils, Taz, jumps off the school roof and is badly injured, ED doc Zoe suspects he's having hallucinations from taking LSD. Mrs Haines confirms that she suspects Taz may have been dealing the drug to other pupils, which is particularly worrying as Taz is also her daughter's boyfriend. Later, when paramedics Dixie and Jeff are called back to the school because eight more students start hallucinating, another culprit emerges. Elsewhere, Jordan's mission to improve the hospital's image in two months ruffles Charlie's feathers and confuses Noel. Only Ruth seems happy with the changes. Until she falls foul of the new rule system when a patient reveals that she's waited more than four hours for painkillers! But Ruth has greater problems at home. Confused by new husband Edward's lack of physical attention, she plans a night of intimacy for the two of them. Edward appears oblivious to her efforts and announces he wants to sleep alone in the spare room.

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.