Last month, Lynne Featherstone, Home Office minister and MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, asked the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to launch an inquiry into claims that the hospital withheld information from the first serious case review into the death of Baby Peter in Haringey in 2007.
Great Ormond Street Hospital commissioned paediatricians Professor Jo Sibert and Dr Deborah Hodes to compile a report into the Baby Peter case, but their findings were only presented to the serious case review team in an edited form.
Details that were omitted from the full report included concerns that the Great Ormond Street Hospital-employed doctor who saw Peter Connelly at the children’s unit at St Anne’s Hospital had "little experience and training in child protection".
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