Government asked to withdraw Griffiths report

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.980/a

BMJ 2000;321:980 ( 21 October )

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Government asked to withdraw Griffiths report

Clare Dyer legal correspondent, BMJ

The government came under strong pressure in the House of Lords last week to withdraw the report of an NHS Executive inquiry into paediatric research at North Staffordshire Hospital that drew scathing criticism in the BMJ last month (23 September, p 752).

The government had agreed to the inquiry, chaired by Professor Rod Griffiths, public health regional director for the West Midlands, after a number of parents claimed that they had been unaware their children were taking part in a clinical trial of a new type of ventilator for newborn infants and that they had not given their consent.

Sir Iain Chalmers, an epidemiologist, and Dr Edmund Hey, a retired paediatrician, accused the inquiry panel in their BMJ article of making numerous errors in its report on the ventilator research, led by Professor David Southall, which took place between 1990 and . . . [Full text of this article]

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Relevant Article

Investigating allegations of research misconduct: the vital need for due process • Commentary: Response from members of the Griffiths inquiry: Edmund Hey, Iain Chalmers, Rod Griffiths, Terence E Stacey, and Joyce Struthers
BMJ 2000 321: 752. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]