I really don't want to meander and come off as anything other than sincere, so I won't beat around the bush.

On 10 April, I created a thread on the Holby Wiki Twitter account responding to claims suggesting that the wiki was either ignorant to or unwilling to acknowledge certain personality traits in characters or contextual clues that, in the real world, would be indicative of things such as being on the autism spectrum and being non-heterosexual. In the thread, I explained that not everyone here (including myself) has seen every Casualty or Holby City episode, and the wiki is open to exploring aspects of the Holby universe that are not explicitly stated.

I know that are definitely groups of people who were happy with this explanation and felt vindicated by having their assessments of certain characters be presented on what is supposed to be a factual wiki. Sadly, I regret to announce that I'm going to have to retract my statement, and the wiki will have to go back to having in-universe articles only stating facts that have been presented explicitly in canonical material.

I have to admit that my decision to allow more 'speculative' (for want of a better word that doesn't suggest that I'm dismissing observations that are, in my opinion, inarguable) information into in-universe articles was mostly spurred by seeing comments disparaging the wiki. For better or for worse, I'm extremely conscious of how this wiki is perceived by the wider Holby fanbase. I and some of the wiki's past admins have made a few gaffes over the years, such as allowing misinformation about actors to go uncorrected, irresponsibly teasing embargoed news on social media and the whole situation regarding plagiarised content from Holby.tv.

However, in this case, I am going to have to put my foot down and start removing content that is not explicitly stated or shown in episodes.

Let's ditch general statements for a moment and discuss an example. In the Casualty episode "Sanctuary", while Dylan is treating a patient on the autism spectrum who is struggling with sensory overload, he decides to help her by cutting down a cubicle curtain in order to construct a dim and dull-coloured tent for her. While Dylan cuts down the curtain, he and Zoe have the following conversation:

Zoe: "Have you gone mad?"

Dylan: "I prefer the term 'neurodiverse'."

Zoe: "I prefer the term 'off your bloody rocker'."

In case there was any doubt, I believe that Dylan is autistic. Furthermore, I personally cannot understand how anyone could doubt or not pick up on the fact that, from a real-world perspective, he is autistic; his mannerisms and general demeanour scream it. I've chosen this example as, by virtue of the use of the word 'neurodiverse', some could argue that this is canonical confirmation that Dylan is autistic.

However, as much as it pains me to say, this is still not explicit confirmation from the Holby canon that Dylan is autistic. In the context of the conversation, Dylan could easily have used words like 'maverick' or 'unorthodox' to describe himself, and taking Dylan's comment at face value, in my opinion, would make the comment almost nonsensical as it implies that no neurotypical person would ever have considered using a cubicle curtain to help ease a patient's sensory overload. I could also be cynical and highlight Casualty and Holby City's track records when it comes to portraying stuff like autism and sexual orientations (*cough* Jason Haynes *cough* Toby De Silva *cough*), and you could make arguments refuting my suggestions and post mountains of evidence pretty much proving that Dylan is autistic. Ultimately, the fact that we have to provide mountains of evidence and analysis to prove that Dylan is autistic when Casualty could have just said the word once shows that we should probably hedge our bets.

We also have to remember that the real world often differs from the Holby universe. As much as Casualty and Holby City's writers try to emulate real life in both shows (especially when it comes to medicine), there are still fictitious surgical procedures and trials, and I'm not even going to go into the utter mess that is the shows' interpretations of how the NHS is structured. Our articles about medical conditions and procedures are written from an in-universe perspective, hence why we have those big blue notices at the top of them warning readers not to use them as substitutes for genuine medical guidance. While I'm not going to start comparing the two shows to something like Doctor Who, we have to be careful about jumping to conclusions based on experiences and information from the real world. To borrow an insightful line from Kelsey Phillips - "You slept with a man. That means you're gay."

In the end, we need to maintain an in-universe perspective when writing about in-universe subjects; we should avoid throwing our own interpretations into the mix. If we do that, we'll just be sticking fragile pieces of canon together with our own reality-based mind glue, and that's pretty much the definition of fanon.

TL;DR - In a knee-jerk reaction to some legitimate comments about how the fandom views certain characters, I decided to allow people to add more subjective information to articles. I have since realised that this contradicts the wiki's position on perspective and that I was potentially opening Pandora's box, so Holby Wiki will go back to structuring articles around established and explicitly stated facts.

I will elaborate on this further when I start writing up policy and MoS pages regarding this, so please contact me if you have any questions or if anything needs clarifying.

What this experience has made me realise is that I have very much been hogging this wiki all to myself. Although the community here is not extremely active, I regret the fact that I have enacted changes like this without consulting you all first and sincerely apologise. Although I admit that I'm not the best at establishing formal standards and writing policies and guidelines, that is not an excuse for leaving you all in the dark and wondering why some of your edits have been reverted. Over the next few weeks, I will endeavour to expand the wiki's editing guidelines and user conduct policies, and, in future, I will propose potential changes to the wiki to you all before implementing them.

Cheers.

Is it just me or has anyone thought that the character pages need updating?

Like, they are missing: Tina, Lev, Faith, Fenisha, Leon.

And also, they have updated the character pictures (if you click on their articles) - it appears that the BBC have updated them to the most recent promo pictures which we have in our character articles.

The theme of the website is also outdated, I think it needs changing.

Does anyone else think this is something they should do? Let me know.

It has been confirmed that Amanda Mealing will be taking an extended break from her role as Connie Beauchamp, however, has confirmed that their is no plans for her to return.

Connie has been on Casualty and Holby City for a combined 18 years and I for one am devestated that she is leaving.

So long Mrs B!

Casualty:

Emily Carey returned to her role as Grace Beauchamp-Strachan earlier this month, the character last appeared in Series 32.

In Casualty, we have Rosie Jones who will be joining the recurring cast playing a character involved in a big story with Jan Jenning.

We've also got Adele James returning full time as Christina "Tina" Mollett.

We're also waiting for Michael Stevenson to return as Iain Dean, Stevenson spoke to DigitalSpy regarding his return and his return also involves Jan Jenning.

Holby City:

Last Week, Sian Reese-Williams confirmed her exit from Holby as Jodie Rodgers, with Jodie's exit scenes airing in Episode 38.

We've got a new nurse on AAU, Kylie Madden! Kylie is a new bubbly staff nurse, comment down below what you think will happen to the character. She is portrayed by Amy Murphy.

Well, that's all for this time! Tune in in Late March for the next edition.

Holby City

It has been confirmed that Rosie Marcel has quit her role as Jac Naylor, first appearing in 2005, Jac has been a fan favorite for quite a lot of people, however, the character will be bowing out in Episode 36 which will be airing on 2 February.

Meanwhile, it's been confirmed that Laila Rouass has reprised her role as Sahira Shah, who is set to return in Episode 37 as Jac's replacement, fans will recognise Sahira who joined the cast back in 2011 as a Cardiothoracic Surgical registrar who arrived in Holby in February 2011 and departed in April 2012, according to Laila Rouass' instagram, she'll be back to her old ways as she is set to "ruffle some feathers."

Casualty

Back in December 2020, it was confirmed that Emily Carey would be returning to her role as Grace Beauchamp-Strachan, fans will recognise Grace as the daughter of Clinical Lead, Connie Beauchamp.

Also in December, it was confirmed that Michael Stevenson would be returning to his role as Iain Dean, following a year-long break from September 2019.

And finally from December, it was confirmed that Adele James would be returning to her role as Christina "Tina" Mollett, who was last seen when her brother died in the Emergency Department back in Series 34.

It was also confirmed that Chris Gordon and Stirling Gallagher would reprise their roles as Ross West and Ffion Morgan respectively, as the family of Operational duty manager, Jan Jenning, the three will be involved in a "big story" later in the series.

That's everything for today's Leavers & Returners, thanks for reading!

Connie: we have too many cases. Not enough bed

Charlie: we can only treat one person at a time you can cannot help everyone at once.

Jacob: that's all we can do.

Charlie: agreed. Let's get back to work!

Connie: OK Dylan. What we got?

Dylan: 4 beds with covid-19 and an emergency incoming car crash with multiple injuries.

Charlie: everyone! Get ready we need to sort all patients quickly to treat all injuries.

Robyn: we have 3 beds available over here.

Lev: both legs swollen, skin at risk. Transferring to a different word. Skin damage very deep, need constant prompts with what to do.

Dylan: patient refused senna at 10pm, paracetamol not given due to 6pm dose being late as just arrived on ward.

Noel: assisted with hygiene and dressing. Grain and sacral area, sore zinc and caster oil cram applied.

Connie: spoke to daughter who says her mum has poor appetite normally. Supplements started.

Noel: only ate a small amount of soup. And picked at the sandwiches. Start a food chart for 3 days?

Jacob: Connie, we need more masks and aprons.

Connie: I know Jacob... I'm trying the best I can!

Jacob : we will all get poorly if we don't have enough.

Charlie: yes Jacob, thank you... We are trying.

Ethan: hey guys! I've just got all of our PPE! mask up every one! Let's go to work!

Written by Rupert verboom

Casualty has confirmed it's return on 2nd January, with a reduced amount of episodes, confirming that 30 will be airing rather than the 40-46 episode mark.

Driving me mad...

Hi. I'm trying to find an episode of casualty, but all I can remember of it is a young woman, being trapped in a car, with the roof cut off, in the rain.

I think she was being treated and spiken to by the paramedic Josh... i think!

If anyone knows this episode, could you please let me know which one it is?

Thanks loads!!!

I would like to share my thanks to Lythronax for helping this merger happen, he has put a lot of effort in to make this happen, and we are increasing and making articles at the moment, the Holby City wiki has now closed and everything will be transferred to this wiki. The Wiki will be great and we thank you all who have helped this happen and together, we can make this wiki great. Holby City articles are being slowly transferred from the old wiki, but, remember, not everything is here yet.

With Greatest Thanks,

Medi

I personally love Ollie and Davids storyline so far. I am very scared for this weeks up coming episode. I feel like they did a great job on casting ollie as i feel that Harry Collett plays him very well. Anyone else agree?