Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for the elderly.
Artist Dylan Schwarz and his assistant Elke show up on K2 to launch a kids art project. Pippa finds herself attracting the attention of Dr Kersley and obstetrician Dr Tatty Oxford, who has a surprise of her own to spring on Den. Kim admits that Dave has been offered a job in Iraq.