Plot

Sister Den Flixter, Nurse Kim Wilde and Dr. Pippa Moore work on a geriatric ward, where most of the patients go out feet first, such as Lily who dies on her eighty-seventh birthday - which allows the staff to eat her cake. A Bengali patient who cannot speak English causes a problem, as does faeces left on a chair. New - male - matron Hilary Loftus, to whom Den has unburdened herself about her failed marriage to a fraudster, tells Kim to flush it away, which she does. Pippa is not happy as she wanted it for her research on stool samples.—don @ minifie-1

Ward B4 is a world of slips, trips and hips, where health care is at its least glamorous. Sister Den Flixter, Nurse Kim Wilde and Dr Pippa Moore assemble for ward round. The daily grind of new admissions and discharges has begun, but Hilary Loftus, the new male modern matron, has just started work and an unsavoury stool sample and a dead patient give him cause for concern. Kim finishes a slice of the dead patient's birthday cake and heads for home.