Staff Nurse at St.Helen's — Clare Lavenham

Her mother's decision to remarry means that Nurse Melanie Lister has to leave home and find a flat. Having found a suitable one to share with two other nurses, she is disturbed to discover that Andrew Forbes, a house surgeon at the same hospital, also plans to move in! She dislikes him on sight, so it is the final straw when Melanie is transferred to the department where Andrew is working. So determined is she to dislike Andrew that her concern when he falls gravely ill seems strangely out of character…