Island Medics

The coastguard rescue a six-foot-nine-inch Norwegian nicknamed Tiny from a ship bound to the Shetland Folk Festival, and junior doctor Freddie treats an Indonesian fisherman in A&E.

Wilma must take a break from her croft to undergo a serious operation to remove a kidney at the Gilbert Bain.

A patient makes a 450-mile round trip for a hospital appointment that takes just 20 minutes, and the emergency services join forces to raise money for an MRI scanner for Shetland.

Chloe starts her first shift as a fully qualified nurse, and Emma takes three junior doctors for a rejuvenating dip in the bay near the hospital.

A 95-year-old navy veteran is winched from the deck of a cruise ship, having lain undiscovered in his cabin for 11 hours.

Patients from Britain's most remote community – on Fair Isle, south of Shetland – wait for a break in the weather to make the trip for important operations.

Dental director Dr Brian Chittick operates on one of his own colleagues who has two troublesome wisdom teeth that need to be removed.

A group of off-duty junior doctors and medical students take a trip to the island of Fetlar. With almost perpetual daylight, they are looking forward to a midnight swim.

Jean, the community nurse on the little archipelago of Out Skerries, is out on her rounds seeing patients and delivering medicine as a one-woman health service.

Occupational therapist Marc Beswick returns to long-term patient Summer, a four-year-old with a condition that means it's hard for her to move her arms and legs.