The dialogue feels realistic and genuine, managing to be populated with legitimate medical terms while still being comprehensible to a general audience. The best part is that all this work to ground the series doesn't get in the way of the thrills - it is a nerve-racking ride from the very start.

Later in the series the focus broadens and the plot thickens (and periodically becomes unbearably tense) to make it more of a thriller, but it doesn’t lose touch with the central theme.

I do wonder if the MIU would be quite so harsh on the actions of a doctor who had just had a gun waved in her face, but then this is a TV drama. I can also see it becoming addictive.

What raises Malpractice above ropey thriller fare is the quality of the acting. Algar is excellent in the lead role as a medic who appears capable but is falling apart at the seams.

Ofori-Attah is a doctor who spent many years working in A&E, and her experience shows. It is the script’s nods to unnerving realties of the NHS that hit hardest.

Malpractice starts strongly, with candid, fast-paced hospital scenes. But before long –the whole series is available to stream – it buckles.

A sort of Sunday night medico-crime BOGOF offer for the viewer, and it works. .... Doctor Lucy is supposed to be a challenged, yet sympathetic, cool character, but I’m afraid she just leaves me cold – like too many of her patients, unfortunately.