Protection Call

Chief Medical Officer, Professor Liam Donaldson has, quite rightly, ordered an inquiry following the deaths of five babies in Greater Manchester Hospitals. The deaths of these babies is tragic and our thoughts must be with the babies families. Whilst we welcome the inquiry, we are however concerned that since launching the Malcolm Rowley Trust we have learned of twenty six deaths in care, at least nine of these deaths occured within the Manchester Area. All of these deaths were avoidable and unnecessary and none occured during a medical procedure attempting to save their lives.

It is of some concern that these deaths have passed largely unnoticed and no one has shown the slightest interest in launching an inquiry. If the most vulnerable people in our society, the sick, the disabled and the elderly are not to be discriminated against under British law, surely they should be afforded the same protection as the rest of the public and an inquiry held in order to prevent further recurrence of these needless deaths.