Judge grants anonymity to hospital treating brain damaged baby to protect staff

A High Court judge has granted an NHS trust caring for a seriously brain damaged baby a blanket anonymity order to prevent jigsaw identification of the baby and the sort of harassment that doctors and nurses at Great Ormond Street Hospital experienced in the Charlie Gard case.

Mr Justice Moor declared that it would be in the boy’s best interests for the hospital trust to stop providing life supporting treatment and ordered that the trust looking after him could be described only as “an NHS trust in the Midlands” in any media report.

The trust argued that staff …