Gripping drama will make you think twice about a trip to A&E

Watching the new series of medical drama Malpractice (ITV1, Sun-Tues, 9pm), you wondered why anyone would work in the NHS.

- Philip Cunnington on Malpractice

It seems like a never-ending tension headache, between the potentially life-or-death decisions doctors and nurses take every minute of the day, and the backside-covering, buck-passing and blame-shifting that goes on after each of those decisions.

And anyone who raises concerns over the culture, over doctors' behaviour, over staffing, gets transferred or investigated.

However, while it may not make you yearn for the wards and vocation of helping people, it does make for a cracking drama.

Dr James Ford (Tom Hughes) is a senior psychiatrist on the mental health wing of a large regional hospital in Yorkshire-senior enough to make his own decisions, not senior enough to avoid accusations from above and below when those decisions turn nasty.

And make no mistake, those decisions do turn out nasty, starting with Ford being called to make a mental health assessment of Rosie, a mum struggling following the birth of her second child.