He ended up temporarily disabled after Sophie accidentally shot him while he was struggling to get a gun away from her before she committed suicide. Terri stayed at his house and helped him and look after his children after he was released from hospital. After struggling for a while, he seemed to be well on the way to recovery and resigned, deciding to head up north to visit his parents.

She fell pregnant, although it ended up being an ectopic pregnancy which required surgery to remove. She was not sad when she lost the baby, and later felt guilty over this. She and Ben split up for a brief period because of her telling him she didn't know if she ever wanted a baby and wanted to focus on her career, and him wanting to start a family. Steph went on one awkward date with Luke and eventually got back together with Ben. Later on Steph changed her mind and was more eager to have a baby, but ended up having a miscarriage.

Steph was set to be in charge of Ward 17 for several months when Terri went on a retreat; however, on the second day into her new role, she died in a terrible car accident. Ben and his partner were the ambos called out to the scene. Steph later appeared to Ben in a dream.

Connor lived with his two best friends, Bron and Jared for several years. Connor was in love with Bron, for many years before he decided to tell her; however, she did not feel the same way. Connor eventually fell in love with ward clerk Jodi Horner and she followed him to England after he went over there for a job opportunity.

Bron's relationship with her father renowned cardiac surgeon Richard Craig is very antagonistic. He claimed to be disappointed that she was "just a nurse" which he considered a waste. After a deal with her father (who is working on the ward in season 2), where he agreed to operate on a patient with HIV in exchange for her leaving the ward, Bron left Ward 17 and became a paramedic working alongside Ben Markham. It was eventually revealed that Bron's father didn't believe her when, as a child, Bron told him that her uncle molested her. Several seasons later, this uncle is being rushed to emergency surgery after being brutally attacked in prison, and begs Bron and his daughter for forgiveness. Bron forgives him because she doesn't want to keep living with the hate she has for him. Richard overhears this and calmly responds to Bron that "he saw now that she wasn't lying as a child, but she should have just stayed quiet about it."

While working as an ambo, Bron also worked as an Agency Nurse picking up extra shifts to earn more money. She started dating Luke again, and he paid her rent since she was usually behind on payments due to her addiction of betting on horse races at the TAB. At one point Bron's credit card was declined and she watched as the horse she was going to bet on won; it would have paid out $20,000. For a while, Bron was able to stop her betting, but later met a patient who got her in touch with a bookie who gave a lot of credit. Ben and Bron became close friends, and after Steph died, Bron started spending more time with him. This, and finding out she was betting on the races again when he thought she had stopped led Luke to break up with her. He was petty about the gambling and told her he gave her the money for rent, not gambling and wanted her to pay him back. Bron got in a massive amount of debt to her bookie and when she couldn't pay him back immediately, he demanded that she steal pethadine from the hospital. Bron took the ampules from the box, but didn't give them to the bookie. She eventually told Ben what was going on, and he paid off her debt.

Ben and Bron started dating, and Bron got a tip on the horse races from a patient who was involved in fixing races; she bet a lot of money and won. Bron threw a celebration for Ben and gave him the money and a watch, but after finding out where the money came from, he refused it and walked away. Bron tried to explain that this situation was different because it was a sure thing, but Ben didn't want to hear it. Ben and Bron eventually talked things through and decided to give things a go. Eventually they got engaged. Bron took some time off before the wedding and headed overseas. When she came back, she eventually told Ben that she had an affair in the UK; Ben felt betrayed and called off the engagement.

During this time, Bron was still in love with Ben, and Ben (who had always wanted children) started dating OR nurse Paula who has a son, Max. (Paula looked a lot like Ben's dead wife, Steph.) Ben was in an accident and when he woke up in ICU asked for Bron. Ben eventually called off his romance with Paula as he was obviously still in love with Bron, and they got re-engaged and married.

Ben was offered a promotion elsewhere, so they both left All Saints and moved to the country.

Bron returned for Mitch's funeral a few weeks later.

Jared had an on-again, off-again fiancé but she left him after he had an HIV scare. He later had a relationship with surgical intern Kylie Preece.

Jared's father was arrested for fraud and Jared lost access to the family money. As a result, he started dangerously overworking himself, picking up agency shifts whenever he could. He is eventually called out by Kate who puts a stop to it. Jared eventually began work with Mitch Stevens in the addiction clinic he started at All Saints until it was burned down. While working for the clinic, he was raped by an addict while trying to follow up with clients living on the streets. Jared contracted gonorrhea from this attack, and finally admitted what happened and started to process the situation. He left All Saints to work in a drug addiction clinic at St. Angeles that was named after Mitch Stevens.

He eventually reappeared in a small cameo as the new partner of Nelson's ex-wife, Leanne; they were about to have a baby.

In between, he got mixed up with a dodgy underworld family, the O'Connells. Luke treated "Ma" O'Connell when she was in the hospital and as a "thank-you" for being straight with her, she had "Pa" O'Connell (who was in prison) look out for Luke's brother, Ricky, who was also incarcerated. Later in the series, Ricky was brought into hospital, and learned that Pa O'Connell had died and Ricky was being beaten. Luke made a deal with "Ma" to have Ricky protected until his release, and because of that was called in to do several "favours" for her. When Ma was later admitted with terminal cancer, she asked Luke to kill her and offered him a lot of money. He refused, so she asked Ricky. There was later an inquest into her death.

Luke's father was also involved with shady characters and is stabbed when gangsters show up at his garage wanting repayment for a loan. Ricky was working there at the time and was also attacked; he later dies. Luke donates a kidney to his father and saves him.

Terri's order suggested she move out on her own for a while before she came to this realization, and during this time she was stalked by a former patient Neil Phillips (who had been diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome) who stole several things from her apartment, broke in and decorated a Christmas tree, and sent her a beautiful dress for the hospital ball. This all culminated with him showing up to take her to the ball and becoming angry when she refused and tried to get him to leave. He tried to rape her and she stabbed him with a pair of scissors. Neal showed up to the ball by himself bleeding to death with two stab wounds in his abdomen, and later died during surgery. Terri reported the attack to the police, but she herself was then investigated as Neil's final words to a police officer were that his girlfriend Terri Sullivan had stabbed him. Some of Terri's personal belongings (that had been stolen) and a diary full of entries about their relationship was found in Neil's apartment. Terri was put on trial for Neil's murder, but she was acquitted.

After Terri re-entered public life she warily began dating Malcolm Pussle, a surgical registrar, but always mourned the loss of her relationship with Mitch, who had by then married Rose and had a baby with her. When Rose (suffering bi-polar disorder) became a menacing threat in her life, she tried hard to be a supportive friend to Mitch. She remained beside Mitch during the divorce between him and Rose, eventually the two were free to be together.

It was shortly after the divorce that Mitch Stevens proposed to Terri and they publicly displayed their relationship. In the short period of time between finalizing the divorce and the engagement, Terri discovered she was pregnant. It was also during this time that she tripped on a soapy floor that one of her staff hadn't finished cleaning, causing a miscarriage.

Eventually the relationship between the two became slightly rocky, as Mitch became started drinking. He hit Terri during one of his drunken nights, but didn't seem to have a recollection of it. He had a CT scan and discovered he that a brain tumour which causing his irrational outbursts and memory problems (he started hallucinating Rose showing up at the hospital and yelling at a nurse he thought was her).

Once the brain tumour was diagnosed, Terri arranged a secret wedding for her and Mitch with their close friends. She gave Mitch the gift of having a star named after him. Soon after they were married, Mitch underwent a very risky surgery to remove the brain tumour; it was initially successful, as he survived the surgery and woke up, but he died soon after in recovery from a bleed.

Terri fell apart as a result of this and spent most of her nights outside in her neighbour's yard, looking at Mitch's star. She was brought into the hospital with a bad pneumonia after her neighbour phoned a co-worker to get her out of her yard. She managed to get herself together to return to work, was diagnosed with a benign heart tumor, and had surgery for it the day Ward 17 was permanently shut down. Terri and her staff were reassigned to the Emergency Department, under Dr. Frank Campion. One of Frank's first conversations with her was to tell her that he wasn't going to baby her staff like she did, and they weren't her staff anymore.

While working as an RN in the ER, Terri had a fling with Dr. Jack Quade, but was always uncomfortable about their age difference. Her closest confidante and friend was Von. Terri eventually becomes guardian of Mitch's child Lucy. Lucy's mum, Rose is murdered shortly after Mitch's death, and her grandmother Victoria was looks after her for a few years dies in surgery. Terri leaves All Saints to spend as much time as possible with Lucy, starting with a holiday to Mitch's homeland of Scotland.

She is very good friends with Terri Sullivan, supporting her through all of her hard times, including Terri's court case for the murder of Neil Phillips, and Mitch's death. She can be very motherly to everybody else and has the potential to be one of the nicest people on earth, when she wants to be. It was revealed in 2008 that whilst working in Vietnam, she was raped. Von's true love died serving in Vietnam where she worked as a nurse.

While sitting her RN exams, a woman is struck by a car when the students are coming in from a break, and Von stays to administer CPR. She doesn't pass her exam because she runs out of time. Von later meets the student who refused to stay and help her while she's working as an Agency Nurse. She tells Von that the woman is still in the ICU and isn't going to recover. After she is taken off of life support, Von is sued by the dead woman's daughter for medical negligence. She ends up having to sell her house and moves in with Nelson as a flatmate.

Throughout the series Von finds out that she has a half-sister who has cancer. She is at first reluctant, but meets and cares for her half-sister, and later on becomes friends with her niece, Kerry. Later on Kerry becomes engaged to Nelson Curtis. On the day of their wedding, Von finds Kerry fatally stabbed in her room after coming back from an errand. She feels guilt over this as she thought Kerry was with Nelson in there, and if she'd known differently she could have intervened and potentially prevented that.

After a negligence hearing before the board following a patient falling in the ED and sustaining a head injury, Von leaves to work in Admin for a while. She returns as a nurse in the ED after the current NUM, Deanna Richards, resigns.

The TV show ends when Von retires from All Saints.

Mitch was hopelessly in love with Terri, and always had been, fleeing to Africa when she initially went into the convent. After repeatedly asking Terri if there was any chance for them to get back together, Mitch began a relationship with Rose and they eventually had a daughter named Lucy. Before he married Rose, when asked in court, he admitted that he still was in love with Terri and would do anything to protect her.

For many reasons Mitch and Rose's relationship didn't work, there was a lack of trust between them after Mitch discovered that Rose had bipolar disorder and didn't tell him, and was making decisions after her medical care while pregnant without telling him. Rose's bipolar disorder lead her to obsess over him and Terri. In the time leading up to their divorce, Rose took Lucy and rarely let Mitch see her. She eventually got help in a mental hospital, and after she was discharged, Mitch and Rose agreed to divorce as they had both said and done things that had caused too much hurt.

After the divorce, Terri and Mitch started a relationship. Terri briefly became pregnant, but suffered a miscarriage when she slipped on a soapy floor. Mitch and Terri did not have a lot of time together before Mitch was diagnosed with a brain tumour, which explained his changing behaviour (drinking a lot and one time hitting Terri). Shortly after this diagnosis, Terri arranged a secret wedding for her and Mitch with their closest friends.

Mitch opted to have a risky surgery in an attempt to remove the tumour, and although he survived the initial procedure he died following complications. Before he died, Mitch told Terri that he never once stopped loving her, and Terri replied, saying that she never once stopped loving him.

Nelson occasionally slipped back into drinking alcohol again, but thanks to co-workers like Terri Sullivan and Von Ryan, he had support for it. Nelson also was kind enough to let Von stay at his house after Von had to sell her flat due to a court case in which she loses her life savings.

Nelson and Von's niece, Kerry, met when Von offered her a place to stay after she left her cheating boyfriend, Colin. Nelson and Kerry fell in love and Nelson began tying up some loose ends in his life by finally obtaining a divorce from his second wife Leanne, and by arranging to see his daughter, who had been in the care of her mother's family since she was a baby. Nelson and Kerry considered moving to the Northern Territory to live near Nelson's daughter after she visited, but decided against it, as she was happy there and that was what was important to Nelson. Nelson and Kerry then were engaged and were to be married in the finale of season 8. Kerry was late to the wedding and Von found her fatally stabbed in her room. She died in the ER and a grieving and angry Nelson went to her ex's house and beat him into a coma. Nelson faced assault charges after this, but nothing came of it as Colin committed suicide while in Rehab after sending Nelson a note saying "Goodbye. I win."

Nelson became an accredited nurse practitioner in season 9. Nelson has a difficult time coping with Kerry's murder and eventually shows up at Frank's house asking him to section him (get him admitted to a psych ward), so he can get well and be a dad to his daughter. Frank tells the ER staff that Nelson has resigned and is moving to the Northern Territory to be with her.

Charlotte came from a family where expectations in regard to education were very low but, inspired to exceed this, she dreamed of becoming a doctor since she was a teenager. Charlotte made her way through medical school achieving good results.

Charlotte is very compassionate and dedicated to her job, although she can become a little hot-headed when it comes to things she is passionate about.

Charlotte was introduced into the show in its fifth season, taking emergency and night shifts. Her first major event was when she was treating a suspected Ebola outbreak with Dr. Mitch Stevens.

Charlotte's sister, Sophia Beaumont, had a brief stint as a nurse in the ED with them clashing a little. Sophia clashed a lot with Frank and quit her job as an ED nurse.

Charlotte is respected by her colleagues, particularly by Frank with whom she holds a very tight friendship. She was previously married to Dr. Vincent Hughes when she was younger, this ended when she revealed to him that she was homosexual, although they remain close friends. Subsequent episodes show her as bisexual, as she has a sexual relationship with Doug "Spence" Spencer, although she identifies as a lesbian. She had several rescue dogs whom she loved, but one of them had to be put down after he bit a neighbour, and the others were murdered by Vincent's deranged stalker, Beth Chandler, in a later season.

Charlotte had a few relationships with women, but when she decided she wanted to have a baby, it lead her to end things with her current girlfriend, as she didn't want children. This was around the same time Terri broke things off with Jack Quade, and the two of them spent a drunken night together which resulted in a pregnancy. Her dream of a baby was cut short when she was hit by a car outside of the hospital and miscarried.

Charlotte meets Doug "Spence" Spencer, a pediatrician who does overseas work at a medical conference. He is an old friend of Vince as they served together in Timor. The begin a relationship and Charlotte becomes pregnant with his child.

Charlotte has a little boy, Zack, whom she loves very dearly. She does well at juggling her hectic working life with her family life, her son spending a lot time in the hospital crèche. Zack was fathered by Spence, who has disappeared to work in Africa.

In May 2008 it appeared that a relationship may be unfolding between Charlotte and nurse Rhiannon, but instead Rhiannon confided her sexuality to Charlotte and also made a pass at her. When Charlotte knocked her back, Rhiannon chose instead to make a sexual harassment complaint against Charlotte, even though she was the actual instigator. Charlotte tried unsuccessfully to deal with the situation via the internal mechanisms of the hospital, but eventually decided to sue Rhiannon for defamation, at which point Rhiannon backed down and admitted that she had lied about the sexual harassment. Charlotte then discovered Rhiannon in her bathroom, who had slashed her wrists in an attempt to take her life.

Vincent was married to Dr. Charlotte Beaumont when they were younger, but the couple divorced when Charlotte discovered she was gay.

Vincent was a captain in the army and spent time in Timor. He was married after Charlotte but his second wife died in a landmine accident there.

Vincent has a short-lived relationship with Grace Connolly, his medical student in the ER. He goes with her to a remote community that she's from to help her and her aging doctor father, but on the way back their plane crashes and Grace dies.

After Grace dies, Vincent tries to cope by having a lot of one-night-stands. One of the women he hooks up with on New Year's Eve, Beth Chandler, becomes obsessed with him and starts stalking him. She eventually takes him to court, lying about him stalking her, but then drops the case in the middle of the hearing. After this, she ups her game, following Vincent around, and hurting those close to him. This culminates with her kidnapping and drugging Cate and luring Vincent to her house where she tries to get him to confess his love for her, threatening to kill Cate if he doesn't. They get into a physical altercation as Vincent tries to take a knife from her and she runs though some glass doors and purposefully stabs herself in the heart. Despite all this, Vincent tries to save her life, but she dies later in the ICU.

Vincent then has a relationship with nurse Cate, but she dumps him after he ignores her and displays jealousy seeing Charlotte in a relationship with his old friend Spence.

He coached a local football game for kids that Luke really wanted Max to join (but Max hated it). Most people thought he was clumsy, especially Von and Terri, but he made good friends with most everyone else. On his first day on ward 17, he was making coffee and broke Mitch's cup.

In the season 6 finale, Sterlo was shot by crazed gunman Greg (an ex-employee of the hospital). He survived, but developed an addiction to morphine after his surgery, which eventually led to him stealing out of the S8 cupboard, both to use it and sell it. When he is brought in as an overdose and survives thanks to his friends, he decides to go to rehab.

Peter (Jack's father) had an affair with Jack's mother. His mother dumped him at Peter's doorstep when he was 2. His mother ends up coming into the ER to find Jack, she is dying but wants to tell Jack that he has a sister called Rebecca.

Both Jack's half-brothers, Dave and Neville, became policemen and their kid brother might well have followed them into the force if Neville hadn't almost been killed in a petrol station hold up. Jack opted for a less dangerous career and one which might serve his brothers well if they get into any more strife.

At twenty-five, Jack is good looking and younger than his responsibilities would seem to dictate. Despite taking his work and patients very seriously, has a healthy disregard for authority and can sometimes seem to be lacking in propriety. He has a great sense of humour.

He has a brief fling with Terri Sullivan, but she breaks things off due to their age difference. Jack spends a drunken night with Charlotte after this, and she becomes pregnant. When she finally tells him about the baby, he is excited to be a father, but things aren't meant to be as she is in an accident and miscarries.

Jack was briefly involved with temporary ED NUM Deanna Richardson while he was doing his surgical rotation, but eventually saw through her lies (falsely accusing Frank of sexual harassment in an attempt to get him fired, and all the conniving and manipulation of the nursing staff she was doing to try and keep the NUM job permanently) and broke things off with her.

Frank became particularly attached to his intern, Bart West, who he agreed to mentor, after Bart was shot and Frank felt it was his fault.

Frank has been married once, to Dr. Alison Newell, with whom he has a 15-year-old daughter, Kathleen, who is severely autistic. Frank later becomes engaged to Eve Ballantyne, whom he went to great lengths to win over. This engagement ended when Eve became pregnant and they discovered their baby had spina bifida. Eve decided to have the pregnancy terminated and Frank objected. She left town as Frank would not support her decision.

Jessica is still coming to terms with witnessing a shooting in the ED. She now panics whenever an aggressive patient or relative begins to act out - and this happens often in the ED. But Jessica refuses to quit and does not see herself as a fearful, panicky person.

Jessica comes from a solid, happy, thoroughly middle-class family - her dad is a surveyor, her mum is a housewife, and brother Adrian is studying to become an architect. After a short stint overseas, they're all pleased to have Jessica living at home again and very proud of her.

Jessica lacks is the same kind of absolute confidence in her own ability that her family has. Despite being petite and attractive, she still thinks of herself as the frumpy, plain teenager she once was.

Though she'd never admit it, Jessica is a closet romantic, devouring Mills and Boon novels, going to the movies to watch classic romantic movies.

Jessica dates ambo Stuart for a short time.

Jessica leaves All Saints after Deanna Richardson becomes Acting NUM of the ED. She takes a job at St. Angela's as NUM of the ED.

Cate leaves the ED in the first episode of 2007 and decides to rejoin the ambulance service. She had a huge crush on Mac, her ambo partner who is engaged to someone else. He eventually admits he likes her too, but soon after this they are both in an accident where a ceiling collapses in a nightclub they're in on New Year's Eve. Mac went back in to look for Cate, but was injured by debris and suffers a spinal injury. Cate cares for Mac throughout his rehab after his fiancée walks away, but once he's on the road to recovery, his fiancée comes back and they decide to make a go of it.

Cate briefly dated Vincent after Beth Chandler kidnapped and almost killed her. She ended things with Vincent because he was jealous of his ex-wife's new romance with an old friend of his.

After having a small breakdown (likely fueled by the friendship she has with her wild, flirty friend Jo Henderson) and ending up in the ED with a GHB overdose, She then had a relationship with 'Mike' Vlasek in 2007, but she ended it when she discovered that he had neglected to tell her about a long-lost son. She also forces Mike to deal with his morphine addiction.

Dan comes from an ordinary, lower-middle-class family with two sisters and a brother who is now in a wheelchair. Dan is a loyal friend who will drive those around him crazy one minute and be the biggest support the next. His decision to take up nursing was influenced by the side benefit that he'd be surrounding by plenty of young, single women. If his mates ever think he's less of a bloke for being a nurse, he's very quick to point this out and they soon see where he's coming from.

Dan is first introduced when he's on his way to work an agency shift at All Saints. Traffic is stopped because of an accident and he gets out to help. Frank Campion is there already taking charge (because he was also caught in traffic). After seeing Dan work under pressure, Frank offers him a job in the ED.

Dan is an easy-going young guy. He's insightful enough to know that he should be looking towards maturing and becoming more stable in his personal life, but he still enjoys partying, and being young too much to quite let it go. He enjoys watching cricket, going to the pub with his mates, seeing live bands and getting picked up by good-looking women.

Dan marries his coworker Erica Templeton, but after the actor playing Dan (Mark Priestly) died tragically in September 2008, his character leaves the show in episode 453, and is said to have gone to live with his mother for a while, although he never returns.

He was originally a brain surgeon before transferring to the ED.

His young niece is operated on and it is revealed that he operated on his young nephew several years before but he died in surgery.

Sean dated Dr. Zoe Gallagher. He was hit by a car on a date with her and died later that night.

Erica is a kind, bright, and happy person. She is committed to her job and, although she has very limited experience, always looks for a challenge and does her best. She is a down-to-earth (if a little naive), loyal, and respectful person.

Erica has an older brother who she loves very much but who has a way of getting himself into trouble. He spent much of his life in gaol and in juvenile institutions. She'd do anything for him, even if she knew he would not repay her or even if he is lying; above all, she knows that he is good underneath and she knows he loves her, too.

Erica works well with everyone in the Emergency Department and is very much one of the team. She enters a in a relationship with Dan Goldman, whom she loves very dearly. They have just gotten married (August 2008) but his mother appears to be unhappy about the idea.

Erica was kidnapped and murdered in episode 448, and the murderer is yet to be caught.

(The original plan was to have her found alive, but the end of this episode was re-written to have her murdered after the tragic death of Mark Priestley, so his character could be written off the show).

In 2007, at the end of his internship, Frank realised that he could not keep Bart on as a permanent staff member as the budget wouldn't allow it. Upon telling Bart the unfortunate news, Bart left the ED straight away to start his surgical rotation with Mike. It was then that Mike offered him a permanent position the Surgery Department which Bart accepted, knowing little about how much effort Frank was going to, to find a way that Bart could stay in the ED.

In late 2007, Bart found his way into a relationship with one of his patients, Anne-Maree Preston, played by Yael Stone. She had cancer, and died not long after. This left Bart heart-broken, and he has not been in love since. In 2009, he slept with Frank's niece Amy, and broke the relationship later after that. In episode 13 of season 12, he and Amy become a couple.

Mike has managed to maintain a 20-year relationship with his morphine addiction. In 2007, Cate discovered his nasty secret and after reporting it to Frank, he was forced to undergo detox or stop being a surgeon. During this time he had to routinely undergo drug checks and attend regular counselling sessions with Sonia Moore (played by Lucy Bell).

He has since started up the All Saints Medical Response Unit and recruited Jo Mathieson (played by Mirrah Foulkes) and Steve Taylor (played by Jack Campbell) as part of the team.

Gabby is one of the most independent and gutsy members of the ED teams and is not pushed around by anyone, including Frank. She comes from the country and has a good sense of right and wrong, and is not afraid of anything. She operates by morals and is a very kind person.

Gabby is a fantastic nurse and one who is there "when the chips are down". She would do anything for a patient or a colleague,but also knows when something is wrong, or when someone is taking advantage of her. She is not afraid of speaking her mind or disciplining her staff when needed.

It was quite a shock for her it was Dr. Steve Taylor arrived at All Saints. They had grown up together in the country and had a previous relationship. It wasn't too long before the chemistry reappeared and Gabby and Steve were drawn together again.

Gabby tries to help Steve with his alcohol problem. They are in a relationship of sorts. She is currently pregnant with Steve Taylor's baby.

Zoe is an intelligent, independent and sophisticated woman; and she is highly ambitious. Zoe is straightforward and assertive in dealing with people.

Zoe graduated medical school with top results and knew that she always wanted to work in the Emergency Department, where the action is.

Upon her arrival, she was not warmly welcomed to the ED, especially as she ends up with the 2IC job; a job that Charlotte was thought she would have.

Zoe is weary of relationships, fearing she'll make the mistakes that ended her previous marriage. This is made worse by the tragic loss of her boyfriend and fellow doctor, Sean Everleigh.

He is a strong and fit man who is comfortable in his own skin and can handle himself in any situation. He has a strong work ethic and a natural curiosity. A passionate, competitive, and brilliant doctor, Steve isn't one to run from a challenge, professionally or personally. Steve has a temper though and it doesn't take much to set it off.

He burns his romantic bridges with Gabrielle, whom he loved dearly and will always have a soft spot for, but comes to the point where he has been able to forgive himself for the sins of his past and look to a more promising future.

Challenge is what he craves most and the new Medical Response Unit feels like the right place to offer him those challenges.

Steve is the father of Gabrielle's baby which he helps to raise when it is born.

This probably has a lot to do with his upbringing. Adam's earliest memories are of hiding with his brothers from an abusive father who liked to take out his frustrations on his wife and children. By the age of 14, Adam had had enough. After a particularly nasty night of violence in his home, he took to the streets. He did his best to nurse his injuries until he finally collapsed and was rushed to the local hospital. He was nursed in the Paediatric ward by Von Ryan, who saw something in him that other nurses didn't see: the bright spark that had almost, but not quite, been extinguished, his intelligence, and his good humour. Von saw the potential in a boy who was going to end up dead if someone didn't intervene, so she did. To this day, Adam views Von as the one and only person who actually cared about him. Through her faith in him and the work she did to get him into care and back to school, Adam thrived in both body and soul. On the day he graduated with a medical degree, there was only one person he invited to the ceremony - Von - and she attended with pride.

Adam is a man of boundless energy and he'd argue that his inability to stop and take time out for himself is because that energy has to be channelled into something or he'll explode. He's a natural communicator and protector of women. Abuse of any description makes Adam lose all perspective. He can behave quite badly under these circumstances, becoming unpredictable and even dangerous at times. He hates himself when he loses his temper, because it reminds him a little too much of his father. He knows the statistics of the "abused becoming the abuser" and fights against it at every turn.

Intimacy is difficult for Adam and long-term relationships scare the hell out of him. On top of this, Adam's compassion and eagerness to help often leads him into dangerous territory - not necessarily for those around him but for his own psychological well-being. His greatest asset is often his downfall - Adam cares too much. He's unable to create and maintain the professional barrier that so many Doctors use to keep their sanity intact. This often leads to dark, sleepless nights or a need to escape for a while and run off the feelings that threaten to overwhelm him. If he could step back occasionally and realise that "intention" and "result" don't always match, he'd be a much healthier soul.

Claire is calm, composed and rational in almost all arenas of her life but one thing she cannot cope with is aggression. She's had too much of that in her life. Her younger years were tainted with alcohol-fuelled rages from her father, and Claire made the mistake of falling in love with a man who had very similar tendencies. Any conflict in their relationship was solved with a fist, and Claire found herself making all the same excuses for black eyes and split lips that her mother used to make. After a particularly bad night, when her partner took out his frustrations over losing a job on her, Claire decided she'd had enough. Once he fell into a stupor, Claire packed the bare minimum of belongings and took off. She hasn't looked back, hasn't contacted him, and would be happy if she never laid eyes on him again.

Determined to make a new start, Claire moved to NSW (New South Wales). She has not yet found her professional feet in a new health system and had been agency nursing for a few months now while she looking for the right permanent position in the right place, which ended up being in All Saints.

Claire would love nothing more than to be in a healthy relationship with a new partner, but is glad she is now safe. She is alone, with no friends or no family nearby, but feel's that's a small price to pay. She's not a victim, she's a survivor, and nothing that has happened in her life has managed to undermine her innate sense of optimism and desire to connect with people.

Growing up in a large family, Jo learned at an early age to stand up or be overlooked.

She's brilliant at what she does, fit and focused, with the ability to think outside the box. But these attributes are also her undoing as she tends to be impulsive and rebellious if a rule doesn't make sense to her.

She gets a real buzz from the adrenaline rush of the rescues she participates in, but that's not to the exclusion of empathy or compassion. She knows when to be tough, when to hold a hand, and how command trust from a patient.

A fiercely loyal friend and a team player, Jo has not made much room in her life for romance. She's had a few relationships but most have ended prematurely with the man in her life finding her strength and independence, often the things that attracted them to her in the first place, too hard to handle in the long run.