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Postgrad Med J 2004;80:307-308 doi:10.1136/pgmj.2004.021881
  • Harold Shipman: the aftermath

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  1. L Donaldson
  1. Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS, UK; liam.donaldson@doh.gsi.gov.uk

      When the guilty verdicts were brought in on the murder of 15 of Harold Shipman’s patients in the winter of 2000,1 I was asked by the then Secretary of State for Health whether there was any way in which we could establish whether there had been other clinically suspicious deaths. It was on this basis that I commissioned a clinical audit of Shipman’s practice from Professor Richard Baker. The question by the Secretary of State for Health …

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