Doctors is a British medical soap opera which began broadcasting on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff and patients of the Mill Health Centre, a fictional NHS doctor's surgery, as well as its sister surgery located at a nearby university campus. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in Doctors in 2010, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the programme's executive producer, Will Trotter. (Philip McGough) makes his first appearance in January, with (Richard Mylan) arriving in March. A month later, security guard (David Perks) begins appearing, and he is followd by Elaine Cassidy (Janet Dibley), a generalpractitioner. (Siena Pugsley), the granddaughter of