Doctors have demanded a government investigation into why London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital kept information from the original Baby Peter inquiry.

They have backed a similar call from Home Office minister and Lib Dem MP Lynne Featherstone, who wants the hospital’s chief executive to quit. The hospital failed to share findings of a highly critical report into St Ann’s Clinic in Haringey.

Abused toddler Peter Connolly was treated there two days before he died.

During a serious case review into Peter Connelly’s death in August 2007, Great Ormond Street commissioned an independent investigation by two of the country’s most experienced paediatricians, Professor Jo Sibert and Dr Deborah Hodes.

But it produced an edited version of their report and passed that - not the original - to the review.

Now a number of unidentified consultants have written to the medical journal The Lancet calling for “strong ministerial intervention” to establish what happened.

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Ex-children’s services director Sharon Shoesmith says she is “thrilled” to have won a Court of Appeal battle over her sacking after Baby Peter’s death.

Judges said then education secretary Ed Balls and her employers, Haringey Council, had been “procedurally unfair” when they sacked her three years ago. The education department and Haringey plan to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Baby Peter Connelly, who had been seen 60 times by social services, was found dead in 2007 with over 50 injuries.

Shoesmith’s appeal was challenging a High Court ruling that cleared Ed Balls, the north London borough of Haringey and watchdog Ofsted, of acting unlawfully. The Court of Appeal judges dismissed her appeal against Ofsted.

Balls said he “strongly disagreed” with the judgement and added that his decision had been based on a report from independent inspectors.

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A doctor who said she failed to spot that the abused toddler Peter Connelly, known as Baby P, had a broken back has been removed from the medical register.

Consultant paediatrician Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat was facing action at the GMC over t0 the care of the 17-month-old, who died in 2007.

But a GMC panel granted her request for “voluntary erasure” from the register, meaning she avoids a full hearing.

It also means that she can still practise outside the UK.

Peter died in Haringey, north London, after suffering months of abuse. A post-mortem examination found he had suffered multiple injuries. He had received 60 visits from authorities.

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A doctor accused of failing to spot signs that Baby P was being abused has won the right to legally challenge a GMC disciplinary hearing against her.

Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat is seeking to overturn a GMC ruling that refused to grant her “voluntary erasure” from the medical register on health grounds.

The judge ordered that her challenge be heard in the High Court in November.

The GMC panel must stop its hearing until the challenge is heard, he said.

Dr Al-Zayyat’s counsel argued that the panel’s decision was “perverse” in the light of medical evidence that the doctor is not well enough to participate in the hearing

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A doctor accused of failing to spot signs that Baby P was being abused is seeking to quit practising medicine in the UK.

Dr Sabah Al-Zayyat was originally due to face misconduct allegations in February, but the hearing was adjourned after the panel heard she was suicidal.

The GMC has now heard that the locum paediatrician is renewing a bid to apply for ‘voluntary erasure’ from the medical register. It could ban her from working in the UK.

Dr Al-Zayyat’s lawyer Mary O’Rourke said the application for voluntary removal from the medical register would be based on “medical grounds” because the doctor is “unfit to stand trial and defend herself”.

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A GP who saw Baby Peter eight days before his death has been suspended from working as a doctor for 12 months.

The General Medical Council had already ruled there were “serious failings” in Dr Jerome Ikwueke’s care.

Peter, from north London, died aged 17 months in August 2007 after sustained abuse.

Dr Ikwueke, 63, who was the family’s GP, had noted that the toddler was not his “usual happy self”, seemed “withdrawn” and pulled away when he saw him for the last time on July 26 2007.

The GMC had said the GP breached his professional duty towards the child in not carrying out a full examination, making an urgent referral for further checks or sharing information with a health visitor or social workers.

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