As a pre-cursor to a visit to St. Barnabas by the Minister of Health, his underlings are shown around and get the wrong impression when they walk in on Dick advising Griffin on how to chat up Nurse Pettigrew. When the Minister turns up to watch an operation, Duncan has inadvertently got drunk, Dick is listening to the races and Griffin makes an awkward entrance on a trolley with Nurse Pettigrew. When the three doctors are sent for for a carpeting, Dick and Duncan discover it's good to have friends in high places.