The Royal - 5 ª Season

Gordon Ormerod returns to the hospital following his accident and is called to a girls'school where his unsympathetic treatment of a hypochondriac pupil suggests that he needs more time to recover. A new nurse, Catherine Deane, comes to work at the Royal whilst T.J. Middleditch prepares to retire as hospital administrator.

Having secured the future of the Royal Mr. Middleditch hands over to the much younger Adam Carnegie whilst Gordon's plaster comes off at last. Mr. Rose is forced to think on his feet when disaster befalls a friend on the golf course whilst the Travis family have to face up to tragedy.

Gordon has still not regained all his old confidence as is evidenced when he attends a drunken farmer after a tractor accident. Paul Guthrie accuses his glamorous young step-mother Debbie of trying to murder his father, night-club owner George who has been admitted to the hospital with symptoms of poisoning, whilst Jeff becomes involved in a domestic case when Hilary Worthington claims custody of her grandson on the grounds of his parents' irresponsibility. Lizzie has an admirer in stationery salesman Teddy Worthington.

Jeff is accused of becoming too involved when he goes out of his way to help Carol Buxton, who tells him that she is suffering domestic violence at the hands of her husband whilst a patient who is referred under an assumed name causes confusion. Frankie suspects that Gordon's erratic behaviour is caused by addiction to his medication.

An epidemic of typhoid breaks out, located to the wards, and the Royal has to be quarantined though, despite this, Mr. Rose still has to bring an injured man into the hospital for an operation. Jill catches Gordon, still not his full self, asleep on the job.