Zoe's love shock!

Zoe's love shock!
Zoe's love shock! (Image credit: BBC)

After all the drama and heartache with Jordan, Zoe's been enjoying some uncomplicated fun with new boyfriend, Joel - or so she thinks! Joel, who turns out to be only 15-years-old, reveals that he's stolen her computer memory stick containing confidential patient records, and refuses to give it back unless she carries on seeing him. It looks like the feisty medic is heading for more hot water... Ruth's rushed to hospital suffering with severe haemorrhaging from the abortion pill. Jay dashes to her side but she refuses to see him. At the hospital, Ruth's distraught her colleagues will know what's happened because they are treating her so she confides in Tess who promises to only tell the surgeons. Former Corrie star Tracy Shaw pops up this week, playing Jane, the anxious mother of a Leukaemia sufferer who's in remission. She makes the alarming discovery that her son, Ronan, is seriously ill with measles and because of his impaired immune system, it could prove life threatening. Elsewhere, Alistair (Joe McFadden) becomes increasingly fixated on Polly and begins to believe she's his girlfriend. Ruth agrees to see Jay and they have a heart-to-heart. The couple are back on track until Sarah Evans pays Ruth a visit. Ruth decides she needs to focus on work and plans to break up with Jay...

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.