Other complaints were filed against a retired general practitioner jailed last month for indecently assaulting women during routine medical examinations.

Stephen Cox, 65, had sentenced to 22 years for 12 assaults on patients while working at a practice in Bracknell, Berkshire, between 1988 and 1997.

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said the force was looking into “a number” of cases, but investigations remained at an early stage.

Cox previously worked at other practices in Wokingham, Burton-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Derby, Leicestershire, Telford and West Sussex.

Reading Crown Court heard that Cox was “motivated by sexual pleasure” when he assaulted the women at the former Ralphs Ride Practice, now Waterfield Practice.

He also performed internal examinations on some of the women when they were not required or without using gloves.

Judge Sarah Campbell told Cox at sentencing that he was “the worst kind of sexual predator”, who assaulted seven vulnerable women who she believed would be less likely to complain.

Cox, from near Welshpool, was cleared of four other charges involving one of the victims on October 4 following a month-long trial.

The judge said the way the victims did not report Cox immediately after the attacks “will be damaging” to many women.

Cox, who had retired before his recent trial, was suspended from practicing medicine for nine months in October 2010.

Regulators found he acted inappropriately and in a “sexually motivated” way with two patients and a trainee while working at a practice in Handcross, West Sussex.

Examples include putting a hand into a patient’s bra during an examination, pushing or shoving the patient’s body against a woman’s bottom, and deliberately touching and/or rubbing the leg and arm of the medical student.

At the time, the hearing was told he was “devastated when the complainants came forward”.

But a panel found Cox had not shown he was “able to empathize with the perspectives of the women concerned”.