Inquiry Into Research By Dr Southall

EDM number 128 in 2007-08, proposed by John Hemming on 07/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Health services and Patient rights and complaints.

That this House notes that in an email dated 24th October 2000, John Radford, Doncaster's then Director of Public Health, described the issue of research on babies by Dr David Southall at Doncaster Hospital in the late 1980s as `potentially a hot potato as to my recall the intervention resulted in increased deaths and didn't have proper consent'; expresses concern that the details of this research and its outcomes have been covered up by the health authorities; expresses particular concern that the research protocol specifically required that no action be taken to prevent cot death in the children selected until sufficient data had been collected; notes that the inquiry into Continuous Negative Extrathoracic Pressure (CNEP) ignored CNEP in Doncaster; and calls for a public inquiry into this and other research managed by Dr Southall to identify why the checks and balances in the system failed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 3 MPs.