During this final plot, we also saw the return of Sunetra Sarker as Doctor Zoe Hanna.

Pondering over Charlie’s exit, Sunetra recently admitted that while she absolutely loved being a part of the departure story, she couldn’t help but feel this legacy character deserved a lot more.

‘I always promised Derek if he ever left, I’d come…I’d be there in a heartbeat’, she told the Mirror.

‘Y’know, I feel like he deserved a lot more, personally. I feel like I wish we could have had him on every channel talking about his departure. It was an honour to go back. I would have loved for so many of us. I know so many of the cast would have loved to be a part of that. I was just thrilled to be a part of it.’

‘I can’t explain who he is to everyone on that show because it’s more than a father figure’, she smiled, revealing the impact Derek had on everyone.

‘It’s more than a team leader. He’s just a very modest, talented man who knows how to make a show work [because] there would be no Casualty without Derek. I don’t think without his throughline so many of us could have had big parts to be in the show.’

‘It kinda felt a bit surreal [to go back] and he gave the most wonderful speech to the cast and crew which was so from the heart. It brings tears to my eyes just seeing him loving us all. And the reason that so many people in that whole show have got families and homes is because of him.

‘Like he’s kept people in employment, some of them for 30 years. I do think the show’s gonna be very different without him.’

Shortly before Charlie’s departure, the BBC One medical drama welcomed a variety of new faces to the Holby ED including Manpreet Bachu, who plays Doctor Tariq Hussein.

In a recent episode, Tariq’s life changed forever when a patient he had been seeing fell from a balcony.

Discussing the aftermath of this ordeal and how Tariq copes, Manpreet told me: ‘I think he’s almost in the same position as what Rash was in Breaking Point. He’s on a path where there doesn’t seem to be a good road to go down, it seems like absolutely everything is against him. That leads to friction elsewhere in his life too.’

‘It’s quite exhausting!’, he smiled, pondering over filming the constant clashes between Tariq and his cousin Rash (Neet Mohan).

‘Also they go through so much together. There’s no way they can’t come out stronger the other end. I don’t want them to keep clashing, I want there to be a resolve but with sibling relationships, there’s always something petty that causes them to fight! Maybe playing a more authentic, sibling conflict would be fun.’