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He is accused of administering an anaesthetic and a muscle relaxant to his patients without their knowledge or consent.

The man killed worked at the site, he said, and those injured were both hospital staff and patients.

Soon, other departments, such as the cardiac unit, were requesting similar services for their patients as well.

"Often patients will present with very non-specific symptoms that have gone on for months. They won't necessarily be seen by a specialist in cardiology who is going to think of the right diagnosis."

According to more than a dozen GPs we heard from, across all of south-east London's boroughs, the severity of challenges they face under Synnovis is causing anxiety for both patients and doctors.