Reliving the trauma

Former psychiatrist Dr Grace Ofori-Attah has drawn from her own personal experiences to create the hotly anticipated second series of the medical drama

- WORDS: JEN PHARO

When Grace Ofori-Attah quit her job as an NHS psychiatrist to become a screenwriter, she thought she'd left the trauma of the hospital wards behind. But when she filmed the second series of her hit medical drama Malpractice, Grace felt like she was right back there.

The new series finds psychiatrist Dr James Ford, played by Tom Hughes, in a dicey situation when he's called to section a psychotic patient and assess an anxious new mother at the same time - with disastrous results.