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February 2001 University of Leicester Newsletter FEBRUARY 2 FEBRUARY lehttp://www.le.ac.uk BulINSIDE LEICESTER PROFESSORtin REVEALS INSIDE STORY: SCALE OF SHIPMAN'S KILLINGS Bulletin’s AS THE new year the fifteen murders for which SUPPleMENT, with details of opened there cannot he is serving a life sentence, Research Grants have been a national but the likely full scale of his and Books. A newspaper that did killings has been uncovered history of not carry full by an investigation carried chemistry book coverage of the out by Professor Richard is one of those horrifying numbers Baker, Director of the featured. of people who may University’s Clinical have been murdered Governance Research and by the convicted GP Development Unit. CAPITAL Harold Shipman. ACQUISITION: SHOCK FINDINGS: In the 145 pages of his audit London to Paris Shipman has Professor Richard Baker of Shipman’s career from by Sir Eduardo consistently refused uncovered the extent of 1974-1998, commissioned by Paolozzi - his to confess even to Shipman’s killings. second work in continued on page 2 the Engineering Building. Page 3. RINGING ENDORSEMENT FOR LEICESTER PROFESSOR A SHARED EXPERIENCE: European students received a warm welcome from the City and the University. Page 9. Professor of Ancient History in the School of Archaeological Studies, NEW Lin Foxhall, has been awarded an OPPORTUNITIES: MBE (Hon) for her services in Feature on marking the new Millennium. The Leicester’s new Royal Mail has also issued a stamp Graduate School. commemorating her achievement. Page 20. Full story, page 4. uet Bulletin News University of Leicester February 2001 LEICESTER PROFESSOR REVEALS SCALE OF SHIPMAN'S KILLINGS Volume 33 • Number 4 continued from page 1. February 2001 the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Liam Donaldson at the time of Shipman’s Bulletin News ......................1-12 conviction, Professor Baker calculated that as many as 236 people may have Business ..................................13 been victims of the GP who worked first in Todmorden in West Yorkshire and later Hyde in Greater Manchester. International .....................14-15 By investigating the patterns in deaths certified by Harold Shipman, cremation Out & About ......................16-17 forms and medical records, and comparing those deaths with similar GP practices Artstop...............................18-19 in the same area Professor Baker was able to estimate the scale of murders over Feature...............................20-21 the 24 years of the doctor’s career. Graduate Relations ................22 • Harold Shipman issued 521 medical certificates of cause of death. In Student Page ..........................23 comparable practices the highest number issued was 210. Cuttings ..................................24 • Compared to similar practices the excess of deaths certified by Shipman was Teaching Initiatives.................27 297, of which 236 were deaths occurring at home. People ................................28-31 • The greatest number of deaths was among women aged 75 years or over, Notices ...............................31-33 followed by women aged 65-74 years and lastly men aged 75 years and over. A.O.B. ......................................34 • Even in his early career he had recorded an excess of deaths but it was not Crossword...............................35 until 1988 that numbers increased significantly. Photostop ...................Back Page • Deaths were more likely to occur between 1 and 7 pm on weekdays, when relatives and friends were unlikely to be present. They took place during or SUPPleMENT (Research Grants and shortly after a visit from the GP. Books). The next issue of Bulletin is due in March. • The recorded cause of death tended to have a weak link to the victim’s case history. YOUR BULLETIN Government measures have been in place over the last two years to minimise the We wish to encourage members of the risk of a similar series of tragedies in the future. But Professor Baker fears these University to submit items for the Bulletin – are not enough. He recommended the monitoring of GPs’ death rates, more feel free to email stories or suggestions to [email protected]. information on death certificates, more rigorous record-keeping by GPs, and more The Bulletin is edited in the Press and accountability over the administration and distribution of drugs such as Publications Office. The Editor reserves the right diamorphine. to amend or abbreviate copy without notice. Editor: Ather Mirza (3335) Professor Baker, himself a former GP who was chosen to carry out the Shipman [email protected] investigation as one of the country’s leading experts in medical audit, said: “I Deputy Editor: Barbara Whiteman (2676) hope that we can use the methods of the review as a starting point for [email protected] developing a system to prevent such events in the future”. Journalist: Jane Pearson Design and layout: Paula Curtis/Lisa Jackson • The CGRDU in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care AVS – Graphics Pictures: AVS – Photography at the University was formally opened by the Chief Medical Officer Professor Cartoons: Barbara Whiteman Liam Donaldson in April 1999. Professor Donaldson is a graduate and Printed by: AVS – Print honorary graduate of the University and a former lecturer at Leicester. Advertisements: Up to 30 words should be accompanied by cheques, payable to University PETER TAYLOR AT EVENT of Leicester, at the following rates: STUDENTS at two halls of residence got together to organise a new guest House sales and lettings: £5.00 speaker programme. The celebrity they chose to get the ball rolling in January Other sales and service: £2.00 was Leicester City and temporary England Manager Peter Taylor. Free adverts are carried if space permits. Please send adverts to Press and Publications Office. The students, from Gilbert Murray and Villiers Halls in Oadby, are promoting Prices for display advertisements are available on the fund-raising series of events throughout the local community as well as in request from Chris Walters, LUSU Marketing the University. They see the programme as a way to develop a closer Officer (1150). relationship with the local community as well as with past students. The University of Leicester does not necessarily adopt or endorse the products and services “Halls are more than places where students go merely to eat and sleep,” says advertised in Bulletin. The Editor reserves the Matthew Niblett, SubWarden at Gilbert Murray and member of the organising right to refuse/amend any advert without notice. committee. “Students develop lifelong friendships while in Halls, learn how to Email: [email protected] live in co-operative communities and have opportunities to widen their Newsline: 0116 252 3335 experiences of life. Opportunities have included organising hall social events, Advertising: 0116 223 1168 Address: University of Leicester, participating in sporting fixtures and contributing to voluntary activities such as University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH at the local Lancaster School.” Peter Taylor spoke about his footballing experiences at Leicester and previous This icon indicates that a fuller version of the story can be found posts, and offered advice to students on their own career development. www on the University’s web pages: 2 http://www.le.ac.uk/press/press/ uet University of Leicester Bulletin News February 2001 STUDY REVEALS FIRST EVIDENCE OF POLLUTION DAMAGE TO CHILDREN’S LUNGS RESEARCHERS from the Department trigger inflammation in the lungs – exposed. If they are around in the of Child Health and the Centre for leading to wheezing, bronchitis and lungs of very young children they Mechanisms of Human Toxicity at the asthma. could alter the development of the University of Leicester have Speaking to the Leicester Mercury lung and predispose it to chronic uncovered the first direct evidence which broke the story exclusively on respiratory disease.” that carbon particles in exhaust its front page, Dr Grigg said: “These The researchers found the harmful fumes are getting into children’s particles are so tiny that they are not particles in the lungs of all 22 lungs, and causing disease. screened out by the normal Leicester children examined in the Dr Jonathan Grigg, Dr Hazel Bunn protective mechanisms of the two-year study – including babies as and Dr David Dinsdale respiratory system. young as three months old. examined the lungs of “They pass right down into Dr Grigg said: “Children who live children under general the depths of the lung beside busy main roads were found anaesthetic prior to where they sit in the to have twice as many cells an operation for the moist, delicate sacs of the containing the particles as children presence of exhaust lung. When white cells from quieter side streets. However, particles. Examining attack the particles, they even those living in quiet, suburbs cells from the lower release toxic substances have particles in their airways.” lung, the scientists that cause inflammation. observed the cells The team is now planning a further Some particles escape the using an electron study, drawing on surveys of white cells and embed microscope. respiratory illness in Leicester themselves in the lung children, and maps showing particle They discovered tissue. hotspots produced by the city pollution particles in “The fact that there is no council’s pollution control group. the lungs being protection from these cells The study will look at the attacked by the INSIGHT: An electron even when you are indoors relationship between respiratory body’s defence microscopic image of the particles in an alveolar is of particular concern, disease among children and system, the white macrophage. because babies and very exposure to particle pollution. cells. This, in turn, can young children are being BRONZE INSTALLED THE Department of Engineering has recently used a head, a pair of feet, a pair of hands, and other parts. donation from the estate of the late Douglas MacLellan This enormous wooden sculpture was installed in the (Head of Department, 1965-1988) to purchase a small courtyard of the Royal Academy on Piccadilly during bronze sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
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