GPs: Treating Rural Britain

A look at daily life for the UK's most rural general practitioners, from a surgery nestled in the the English countryside, to a practice on the edge of a Scottish loch. Dr Andy responds to an emergency on the south-west coast of Scotland, when a semi-conscious patient is airlifted to hospital. In the Lake District, Dr Julie meets a patient with a condition affecting his hands.

Doctor Matt performs a minor surgery to remove a skin tag in Devon, and he sees a patient who has recently been in hospital with breathing difficulties. On Islay, doctor Catriona meets a woman who's worried that she may have shingles. In northeast Wales, doctor Kieran has a visit from a patient who thinks she has Crohn's disease.

Dr Andy treats a patient who's broken their wrist while walking in the hills, and Dr Sinead sees a patient who has an eye infection and is living with an auto-immune disease. Dr Matt is with a three-year-old who has a lump in her neck, plus Dr Donna visits a man and and his wife at home following a recent cancer diagnosis.

Dr Bruce sees a patient who is recovering from a possible heart attack, and also performs a minor operation to remove a cyst from another patient's neck. Dr Shashi is with a man who thinks he may have Farmer's Lung, and meets a regular patient who has come to the surgery for his monthly cancer treatment.