Doctor Gordon Ormerod

Doctor Gordon Ormerod is a General Practitioner and Anesthetist at Saint Aidens Royal Free Hospital.

Originally married to Caroline, Gordon is widowed when her life support is switched off, due to her failing to recover from the injuries sustained when the bus she was on crashed, while she was in the process of leaving her husband and their children.

He later marries colleague Doctor Jill Weatherall. However, the couple were prone to have work-related arguments, one of the most noteable being about the Middleditch Bequest. Gordon felt that more patients would benefit from a new General ward, where-as Jill felt that a Premature Baby Unit would serve a better purpose. However, she soon agrees that a General Unit would be the best way to spend the Middleditch money and they both agree.

Gordon always goes above and beyond the call of duty. In one instance, in the episode Cursed and Blessed, Gordon walks into a house where a mentally unsound and dangerous man (who is also a patient of Dr Omerod's, and who Gordon suspects of having depression) is armed, in order to save another of his patients, a pregnant women who has been shot. When wife Jill hears of this she is angry at Gordon for putting his life at risk, and is upset at how he had little thought for what may have happened to his family, had he been shot.

In the final episode of The Royal, it is unsure what will become of Gordon as the last scene of the series is Jill looking in at Gordon being operated on, after he was stabbed when caught in the middle of a family fight.