Media report 'Fifty families complain of hospital in death inquiry' by Jeremy Laurance (Health Editor) published by The Independent (5 November 2002)

Refers to: high death rate, Gosport War Memorial hospital, Department of Health investigation, complaints made by 13 families, health managers set up a helpline and appealed for information through local newspapers, meeting on Sunday night with 27 families, Alexander Harris solicitors, medicines, General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Hospital Trust, Health Authority, Sir Liam Donaldson (chief medical officer), families of patients admitted between 1997 and 2000, Richard Baker (professor of clinical governance, Leicester University), audit of GP Harold Shipman's records, Commission for Health Improvement investigation, complaint from Gillian Mackenzie, Mrs Gladys Richards (died in 1998), Hampshire police, Crown Prosecutions, Professor Donaldson and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority. Associated with: CPS000546, CPS000870 and CPS000871.