Dr Christopher Bacon, an adviser to the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, and contributor to the Kennedy Commission into cot deaths due out next month, told Children Now the review was likely to recommend all post-mortems should be conducted by paediatric pathologists. But he said junior doctors were "shying away" from paediatric pathology.
Consultant paediatrician and child protection expert Professor David Southall was found guilty last week of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council for accusing a father of killing his two babies on the basis of a television programme. He was banned from child protection work for three years.
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