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Dr. Harold Frederick SHIPMAN
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 


A.K.A.: "Doctor Death"
 
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Poisoner - One of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history
Number of victims: 15 - 215 +
Date of murders: 1974-1975 / 1977-1998
Date of arrest: September 7, 1998
Date of birth: January 14, 1946
Victims profile: Marie West, 81 / Irene Turner, 67 / Lizzie Adams, 77 / Jean Lilley, 59 / Ivy Lomas, 63 / Muriel Grimshaw, 76 / Marie Quinn, 67 / Kathleen Wagstaff, 81 / Bianka Pomfret, 49 / Norah Nuttall, 64 / Pamela Hillier, 68 / Maureen Ward, 57 / Winifred Mellor, 73 / Joan Melia, 73 / Kathleen Grundy, 81 (patients)
Method of murder: Poisoning (lethal injections of diamorphine)
Location: West Yorkshire/Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Status: Found guilty of 15 murders. Sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released on January 31, 2000. Committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire on January 13, 2004
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Shipman Inquiry

The Fifth Report

Volume One

Safeguarding Patients: Lessons from the Past - Proposals for the Future


 Cover and title

Letter from Dame Janet Smith

Foreword

Contents

Summary

Recommendations

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - The Conduct of Phase Two, Stage Four of the Inquiry

Chapter 3 - The Appointment of General Practitioners and the Administration of General Practice prior to 1980: Shipman's Appointment to the Donneybrook Practice

Chapter 4 - The Monitoring of General Practitioners from 1980 to 1998: the Arrangements for Monitoring in Tameside

Chapter 5 - Developments in the Arrangements for Monitoring General Practitioners since 1998

Chapter 6 - Complaints and Discipline prior to April 1996

Chapter 7 - Complaints and Discipline after 1996

Chapter 8 - Raising Concerns about Shipman

Chapter 9 - Raising Concerns: the Role of the Practice Staff

Chapter 10 - Raising Concerns: the Death of Mrs Renate Overton Revisited

Chapter 11 - Raising Concerns: the Way Forward

Chapter 12 - Clinical Governance

Chapter 13 - Single-Handed Practitioners

 

Volume Two

Safeguarding Patients: Lessons from the Past - Proposals for the Future


 Cover and title

Chapter 14 - The Monitoring of Mortality Rates among the Patients of General
Practitioners

Chapter 15 - The General Medical Council

Chapter 16 - The General Medical Council's Handling of Shipman's Case in 1976

Chapter 17 - Serious Professional Misconduct and Seriously Deficient Performance: Problems of Definition

Chapter 18 - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: Initial Stages Conducted by the Administrative Staff

Chapter 19 - The General Medical Council's Conduct Procedures: Screening

Chapter 20 - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: the Preliminary Proceedings Committee

Chapter 21 - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: the Professional Conduct Committee

 

Volume Three

Safeguarding Patients: Lessons from the Past - Proposals for the Future


 Cover and title

Chapter 22 - The General Medical Council's Health Procedures

Chapter 23 - How the General Council Deals with Cases of Drug Abuse

Chapter 24 - The General Medical Council's Performance Procedures

Chapter 25 - The General Medical Council's New Fitness to Practise Procedures

Chapter 26 - Revalidation

Chapter 27 - Proposal for Changes

 

Appendices


 Appendice A - Participants in Phase Two, Stage Four of the Inquiry and their
Representatives

Appendice B - Participants in the Inquiry Seminars: 19th - 30th January 2004

Appendice C - Respondents to the Inquiry's Stage Four Consultation Paper

Appendice D - Appraisal Forms for General Practitioners Working in the NHS

Appendice E - 'Following Shipman: a pilot system for monitoring mortality rates in primary care' Reproduced with Permission from The Lancet

Appendice F - Participants in the Inquiry Seminars: 13th - 14th October 2003

Appendice G - 'General Medical Practice' A General Medical Council Booklet
 


Complete Fifth Report (14,1 Mb)
 

 

 
 
 
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