page_title: List of Doctors characters (2000)
section_title: Joanna Helm
hierarchical_section_title: List of Doctors characters (2000) / Joanna Helm
caption_attribution_description: English: A image of actress Sarah Manners at the Inside Soap Awards.
context_page_description: The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera Doctors in 2000, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the show's executive producer, Mal Young.
context_section_description: Joanna Helm, portrayed by Sarah Manners, first appeared on 26 March 2000, and made her last appeatance on 1 June 2001.
  Joanna is a receptionist at the surgery, the first that the surgery had. Joanna meets her grandmother Jessie (Marcia Ashton), and when she looks at Jessie's medical records, she finds out that she is dying of a brain tumour. Jessie tells Joanna that she knows she is dying, and asks Joanna to help her die. Joanna helps Jessie die, and pretends to be upset when she is told that Jessie died overnight. However, when Jessie's nurse takes a look at how she died, she suspects foul play. Mac McGuire (Christopher Timothy) was suspected on killing Jessie, however Mac is cleared. Due to the guilt, Joanna began taking drugs, stealing them from the surgery. She subscribed to more drugs, forging signatures of doctors at the surgery, and eventually took an overdose, nearly dying. She later confessed to the death of her nan, all part of an euthanasia pact, and was dismissed by Mac.
caption: Sarah Manners (pictured) said she had the "best storylines" whilst on Doctors.
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