Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor John Hemming (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 13 June 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 11 members in total.

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INQUIRY INTO RESEARCH BY DR. SOUTHALL

That this House notes that in an email dated 24th October 2000, John Radford, Doncaster's then Director of Public Health, described the issue of research on babies by Dr David Southall at Doncaster Hospital in the late 1980s as `potentially a hot potato as to my recall the intervention resulted in increased deaths and didn't have proper consent'; expresses concern that the details of this research and its outcomes have been covered up by the health authorities; expresses particular concern that the research protocol specifically required that no action be taken to prevent cot death in the children selected until sufficient data had been collected; and calls for a public inquiry into this and other research managed by Dr Southall to identify why the checks and balances in the system failed.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1682 

Session

2006-07

Other sponsors

Vincent Cable

Paul Flynn

Rob Marris

Colin Breed

Ann Cryer

Subjects

Babies Research Southall, David

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk