Peak Practice

Dr. Kerruish (Kevin Whately) is trapped by a rock fall while helping to rescue school children lost in a cave.

Beth learns that her closest friend is dying from cancer; Will considers becoming a candidate for the local council.

The villagers are quick to blame the residents of a group home for former psychiatric patients for an infectious outbreak spread by rats.

Dr. Kerruish is forced to do an emergency delivery on a pregnant crash victim.

Jack returns to Africa to set up a clinic, leaving Beth and Will to run The Beeches on their own.

After Will cancels a big match for a boxer experiencing blackouts, the young man decides to participate in a bare knuckle fight.

Jack neglects Beth; Will's son is injured; Will's ex-wife arrives.

James needs a life-saving operation after he is savagely beaten by a thief; a bad storm causes downed power lines and a string of accidents.

Kim meets a new boyfriend while attending a school reunion; Will's investigation of Roy Shearer annoys Beth.

A new student doctor causes a rift between the Beeches and the local leather tannery when he objects to the owner's teenage son working near dangerous machinery.

The Beeches' fund manager is worried about a visit from an independent medical adviser; Dr. Preston makes an announcement to his partners.

James and Chloe ask Dr. Kerruish for advice on becoming foster parents: Beth is taken to the hospital with abdominal pains.

Dr. Atwood tries to help a man who is trying to self-destruct.

Trevor Sharpe surprises Drs. Kerruish and Glover when he agrees to look into the costs of building an ear, nose and throat clinic at the Beeches.

Jack, Beth and Will attend the solicitors to sign an agreement which allows Will to leave the partnership five months earlier than the contract states.