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Doctors reluctant to work on child protection committees, survey shows

London Owen Dyer

Paediatricians in England and Wales are being frightened away from child protection work by fears of complaints from parents, says the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Each primary care trust is supposed to appoint a paediatrician as a "designated doctor" to serve on the area child protection team. But the college has discovered that 30% of these posts are unfilled. Similar problems affect the "named doctor" programme in hospital trusts. Both roles are unpaid.

Professor Alan Craft, president of the college, said that paediatricians have never felt more isolated than they do now. The paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow will face charges of serious professional misconduct before the General Medical Council this summer, over evidence he gave in the trial of Sally Clark, wrongly accused of killing her two children (BMJ 2003;326:304).

The government has announced a review of 258 cases in which a . . . [Full text of this article]

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