Leading doctors behind Baby P whistleblower

By Andrew Gilligan 745AM GMT twenty-one March 2010

In 2006, the year prior to Baby P was killed, Dr Holt, who has twenty-five years" healing experience, and all 3 of the alternative expert paediatricians at St Ann"s Hospital, Haringey, wrote a corner minute to their Great Ormond Street bosses notice that a kid w Photo JANE MINGAY

Dr Kim Holt, who initial spoke out in The Sunday Telegraph, has been upheld by majority obvious healing figures, together with Wendy Savage, highbrow of obstetrics and gynaecology.

Some of the majority distinguished names in kid medicine, together with Leon Polnay, emeritus highbrow of village paediatrics, have sealed the petition.

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Among the signatories is Dr Hilary Cass, the former join forces with healing executive at Great Ormond Street Hospital that co-ran the clinic. The apply to has been organized by a GP, Dr Pete Deveson.

Dr Holt was placed on "special leave" after raising concerns and has not been authorised to lapse to work for scarcely 3 years, notwithstanding an central NHS exploration anticipating that she has finished zero wrong.

The signatories, all of whom work in the NHS, contend that Dr Holt"s diagnosis is indefensible.

The apply to states "We are told by the General Medical Council that if any alloy thinks studious reserve might be severely compromised, they contingency take stairs to put the make a difference right.

"How are doctors to determine this recommendation with the diagnosis Dr Holt has perceived from NHS management?"

In 2006, the year prior to Baby P was killed, Dr Holt, who has twenty-five years" healing experience, and all 3 of the alternative expert paediatricians at St Ann"s Hospital, Haringey, wrote a corner minute to their Great Ormond Street bosses notice that a kid would die if critical shortages of consultants were not addressed.

Instead of behaving on the warning, Great Ormond Street and Haringey managers cut the series of expert posts further, from 4 to three.

Two of the 3 consultants subsequently left and the third, Dr Holt, was private from her post.

By the time Baby P came to the clinic, nothing of the experienced consultants remained and he was seen by a proxy locum who longed for the actuality that he had a damaged back.

Dr Holt pronounced "I have been staggered by the series of doctors who have sealed the apply to and their comments are really powerful. The vigour to keep still has been enormous, but the issues are as well important."