Julian Chapman is forced to make the most difficult decision of he career. The A & E department is facing a crisis of confidence over staff shortages and when newspaper reporters start investigating, he publicly criticises the management. He clashes with Dr Robert Khalefa and Charlie over the matter, as his affair with Nurse Sandra Nicholl is the talk of the wards. Then following a bitter clash with general manager, Simon Eastman, he decides he has had enough and quits. A promising young skater faces the prospects of her career ending and a owner of a Pit-bull terrier suffers horrific injuries during a dog fight. A man whose been made redundant, takes up competitive cycling and is involved with another cyclist and ends up in casualty.
Casualty is the world's longest running and most successful medical drama series on television. It depicts the private and working lives of the patients, doctors, nurses and all others attending a small but frantically busy accident and emergency department of the large Holby General hospital. By mixing episodic plots with longer, character-based stories it ensures that we get to know the characters as people with lives, not just doctors or nurses. With consistently superb storylines and great acting, Casualty is compulsive viewing. The show began in 1986 and since then only one character remains; the one and only Charlie Fairhead played by Derek Thompson.