Dependable Josh Griffiths is the kind of paramedic anyone would love to have care for them in an emergency, he is highly trained and intelligent, and his quick thinking has helped saved countless lives over the years, and his patience and dedication have helped him train and get on well with his paramedic partners. Josh is also funny, good humoured and sensitive, however after everything that has happened to him in his life, although it doesn't show, he feels things deeply. Josh has had his tragedy in life; he was devoted to his wife, Helen, his daughter and son whom was wheelchair bound with cystic fibrosis - however their lives were cut short in a house fire in S11 E20 - what made it worse was Josh was on call, and arrived at the scene to the devastation.Josh's first episode, S4 E1, sees just the kind of horrific things he has to witness; in this episode a car has collided with a lorry full of toxic chemical drums on the motorway, and he is at the scene. A policeman dies after falling into a pool of acid. Dealing with relatives is also an important part to the job, which is shown in S5 E10; when Josh is called to a farmhouse to find an elderly patient already dead; but his crazed son is menacing them with a butcher's knife. Josh, and Lily, have to pretend the patient is still alive, until they can get into the ambulance and speed off. He even has trouble getting patients to hospital, an extreme case in S6 E13, where Josh and Jane have trouble enticing a mentally ill man, who has spilled hot fat onto himself, into the ambulance. In S6 E15, Josh also has to deal with the many casualties after a major plane crash, which puts Holby on red alert.In S7 E2, Josh is off-duty, when he comes across an RTA, in which a young motorcyclist has fallen off his bike. While Josh calls for help, an interfering GP removes the boy's crash helmet, putting his spinal cord at risk - Josh is furious, confronting the GP, and thinks of telling the boy's father. In S7 E15, Josh and Jane are busy at Christmas, they call to a house where a wife has stabbed her alcoholic and abusing husband. As they bring him in, a young homeless girl - who Rob earlier discharged - runs infront of the ambulance, causing it to swerve and hit a lamp post. The stabbed man dies, and an upset Jane has whiplash injuries - Josh tries to cheer her up in her cubicle. In S7 E18, it's Jane who comforts Josh, when he is injured, after a mentally ill man who has tried to kill himself, tries to strangle Josh when he arrives at the scene. Josh's wife arrives too, and treats Jane jealously. In S7 E23, two young boys steal a security van not realising it is carrying radioactive isotopes. When they crash, the isotopes are scattered. With Josh and Jane unwittingly contaminated - they are forced to strip and shower in casualty. And in the final episode S7 E24, Josh faces a tough time bringing in casualties after a riot on an estate, which leads to youths arsoning the hospital.In S8 E1, Josh is called out to a major accident of a train crash; there are many casualties, some of whom are trapped in the wreckage, which doesn't give him an easy time. Nest episode S8 E2, strong winds at Holby lead the staff to face a busy time. A family are involved in an RTA, but hampered by the storm, Josh and Jane are unable to reach the scene in time to save a woman's life. SHO Karen who was at the scene, takes it out on them, which doesn't please Josh. After Jane decides to get a job in management, Josh has a new partner, Brian, in S8 E10, but finds it difficult working with him. In S8 E14, Josh is called out to a backpacker, who has been stung in the throat by a bee; he is too ill to be moved and Josh is forced to take instructions via radio from Mike on how to cut a hole in the patient's windpipe. In S8 E21, Josh faces a busy shift, he and paramedic Lucy, are sent to take an old man back to his flat at the top of a high rise block - he lift is broken, and they are forced to carry him all the way up. They next arrive at the home of an Italian woman who claims that her son has hit his head. Josh finds nothing seriously wrong but takes him to A&E anyway. In casualty, Mike notices the mother is ill herself, with a heart condition. Later a girl, who has injected drugs, is brought in by paramedics Eric and Chris. In the ambulance she becomes hysterical and runs away. Josh and Lucy take a call to an unconscious girl - the runaway drug addict. At Holby she claims that Josh sexually assaulted her. Josh is at first suspended, until she then switches her allegation to Eric; Josh is cleared.In S9, Josh is now a motorcycle paramedic, who provides assistance until the ambulance arrives. In S9 E8 a coal mine tunnel collapses crushing a man's legs. Josh arrives, and while another man calls for Mines Rescue, another section of the tunnel collapses, trapping Josh and the patient, Duncan, for three hours. Josh is moved, when Duncan dies, as he is moved to the ambulance. In S9 E10, Josh returns to ambulance work, with a new partner, Liz. Their first call is to a fight at a rugby match.In S10 E3, Liz is held knifepoint by a clinically depressed man. Josh delays calling the police to try and talk to him. The man tries to molest Liz; she feels betrayed by Josh. And in S10 E7, Josh and Liz have to search frantically for a baby, who was kidnapped by a suicidal woman, who's own baby died. In S10 E16, there is a bogus paramedic on the loose. Josh and Liz are appalled to discover that an boy is critically ill, after the paramedic injects him with adrenalin, and it was a call out they were given an inaccurate location for.In S11 E3, Mike Barratt and Charlie go out by helicopter to perform an emergency operation on a mountain ledge. Josh, scheduled for a place on the helicopter scheme, is pleased with the success of this latest helicopter operation. Next episode he has to deal with a violent drug addict, they alert the police as he searches for drugs. In S11 E7, Josh and Liz rescue a girl involved in an accident in the middle of nowhere. Mike talks Josh through doing a chest drain by telephone, however back in resus the girl dies. And in S11 E9, Josh and Liz rescue two girls by helicopter, after their caravan crashes. In S11 E20, Josh and Liz get an emergency call out to a fire at Josh's address. His wife and son die, and they rush his daughter to A&E, where staff battle to save her, but fail. Josh is devastated. Next episode, although off work, he comes in to ask Baz how much pain they would have suffered. Baz tries to comfort him. In S11 E22, he returns to work, although Liz is unsure if he is ready. In S11 E24, after Jude's stabbing, Josh is extremely shaky when called out to a man with a clot in his leg. He loses his temper, and Liz later confronts him, saying she thinks he needs counselling. Josh breaks down.In S12 E1, Josh helps delivers a baby in his ambulance. In S12 E12, it's Liz's last day, which Josh finds hard to accept. It is only when Liz puts her life on the line to save a woman and her son from almost certain death at the hands of a violently possessive husband that Josh realises he must let go and allow Liz to move on. in S12 E16, Josh risks life and limb to rescue a boy called Liam from a fire. His father dies, and his fianc Show less «