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• Reforms will not stop another Shipman, pathologist warns

  May 17 2007:

  A pathologist involved in the Harold Shipman murder case today launched a stinging attack on the government's proposed reforms to the coroner system, claiming they will do nothing to prevent another such killer.

• Doctors expected to lose the right of self-regulation

  Feb 21 2007: · GMC will be stripped of power to discipline medics
  · Reform aimed at stopping a repeat of Shipman case

• Shipman family in legal fight over possessions

  Aug 5 2006: Harold Shipman's family are locked in a legal battle with Greater Manchester police to stop the serial killer's belongings being destroyed.

• Inquest reforms fail to plug Shipman loophole, say MPs

  Aug 1 2006: The government has wasted "a golden opportunity" to stop a repetition of the Harold Shipman serial killer scandal, a report by a committee of MPs says today.

• Coroners reform plans criticised

  Jun 12 2006: Plans to overhaul Britain's 'archaic' coroners' system still leaves open loopholes that were exploited by the GP serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, a lawyer for the relatives of many of his victims warned today.

• Reforms no bar to new Shipman

  Feb 8 2006: A future Harold Shipman would be able to kill patients and escape detection under government plans to reform coroners courts and the death certification system, the senior judge who chaired the inquiry into the GP's murders told MPs last night.

• Shipman's grim legacy

  Jan 13 2006: David Wilson: There is a link between the serial-killing doctor's elderly victims and their vulnerability in society.

• Doctors 'lied to Shipman investigators'

  Oct 3 2005:

  A medical tribunal heard today how two doctors failed to report "grossly excessive" doses of morphine had been given to a victim of serial killer GP Harold Shipman - and then lied to authorities investigating the case.

• Shipman's stolen gems found in his wife's jewellery box

  Aug 31 2005:

  Gems stolen by Harold Shipman from his elderly victims were found in a jewellery box in the couple's bedroom, it emerged yesterday.

• Shipman suicide could not have been predicted

  Aug 26 2005:

  A report into the death in prison of the serial killer Harold Shipman concluded yesterday that his suicide could not have been predicted or prevented.

• Q&A: Harold Shipman

  Aug 25 2005: A report has found that the prison where Britain's most prolific serial killer hanged himself 'could not have prevented' his death. David Batty explains the background of the case

• Prison criticised over handling of Shipman

  Aug 25 2005:

  Harold Shipman's suicide 'could not have been predicted or prevented', according to a report published today, although the government watchdog nevertheless criticised officers' treatment of Britain's most prolific serial killer.

• Harold Shipman: a chronology

  Aug 25 2005:

  Key dates in the case of Britain's most prolific serial killer.

• Doctors cleared over Shipman forms

  Jul 8 2005:

  Three doctors who signed cremation forms for serial killer Harold Shipman were cleared of professional misconduct yesterday.

• Colleague thought Shipman was just 'old-fashioned GP'

  Jun 29 2005:

  A GP who countersigned cremation forms for victims of Harold Shipman said he thought the serial killer was just an "old-fashioned GP".

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