there, she works as waitress at a cafe. Frieda teams up with consultants Elliot Hope (Paul Bradley) and Michael Spence (Hari Dhillon) in order to save Lev. Afterwards, Elliot persuades her to return to Holby. Frieda's return to Holby sees her struggle to adjust to working as a doctor and with new colleague, registrar Luc Hemingway (Joseph Millson). She is also under pressure to complete her F1 portfolio on time. Frieda fears that she has failed her F1 rotation when she is summoned to Henrik Hanssen's (Guy Henry) office, but is pleased to learn that she received the best score in the region and is now an F2, working on Keller ward. While working on Keller, Frieda finds herself caught between Dan Hamilton (Adam Astill) and Malick, who both want to supervise her on her first day. Frieda is later assigned the role of mentoring F1 Tara Lo (Jing Lusi), who temporarily comes from Darwin to work on Keller; although she finds her annoying at first the two eventually build up a good friendship. Frieda is offered a job at St Luke's due to her excellent F1 results, when Malick asks her if she is going to accept it, she throws the number of her potential new boss in the bin and resumes her work. When her clinical lead Ric Griffin (Hugh Quarshie) and new consultant Serena Campbell (Catherine Russell) place her in the middle of their feud at the expense of a patient, Frieda decides that enough is enough and leaves the hospital to work for a charity treating patients outside of the system. Three years later, Frieda is admitted to the hospital as a patient with tuberculosis. She opens up to Elliot and Oliver Valentine (James Anderson) about blaming herself for her friend's death in Ukraine. She nearly dies and has to have emergency surgery, when Elliot struggles with the procedure, Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel) saves her life. Development Characterisation The official Holby City website describes Frieda as "sincere, compassionate, supportive [and] honest", but "self conscious, emotionally closed [and] sarcastic." To prepare for the role, Fedori carried out some medical research. She also researched the goth subculture, as it is "far removed" from who she is. She admitted that there were moments where she felt that she had to do more research. Fedori also regularly spoke with the costume department about her character's wardrobe, commenting that it is