Lois Garvey was a cardiac rehabiliation nurse who visited Max Cunningham in December 2006, who had suffered a major heart attack the previous month. Clare was reluctant to let the nurse in, but Max overheard and invited Lois in. Lois said that Max needed to be more mobil, despite Clare's insistence that he rest more. Lois then checked Max's medication and found it damaged, but Clare quickly covered by claiming she'd dropped it on the floor, and had been putting the pills into a daily pill-box.