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Minister calls for hospital chief to resign over Baby P report

Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone is calling for an investigation into allegations that Great Ormond Street Hospital held back "vital information" surrounding its role in the Peter Connelly case.

Featherstone, whose Hornsey and Wood Green constituency is in Haringey, is also calling on the hospital’s chief executive officer Dr Jane Collins to resign.

Her comments follow an investigation by BBC London. This revealed that a full report compiled by paediatricians Professor Jo Sibert and Dr Deborah Hodes and commissioned by the hospital into the case was 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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