How to investigate complaints

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David M B Hall, professor emeritus of community paediatrics

¹University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN

d.hall{at}sheffield.ac.uk

In his open letter to the president of the General Medical Council (GMC) about the case of David Southall, Wheatley refers to a previous inquiry conducted by “a panel far better qualified and more competent than your own on child protection issues.”1

I was responsible for setting up that panel. As president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health I was asked in 2000 to assist Southall’s employing trust in its investigation of complaints about his child protection work, by putting forward names of paediatricians who would …