THE NHS REFORM BLOG

The Daily Mail as well as other media outlets talk about the "poisoner on the wards". Here is the Daily Mail's production this morning. 

Of course, the questions are as follows 

1. Why isn't Greater Manchester Police just shutting down the hospital until they discover and convict the person responsible. It is true they have accosted one person. Have they got it right? 

2. Have the Greater Manchester Police checked the mortality rate of each ward in the hospital? Are there more than one poisoner? 

Anyhow, many would say it is impractical to shut a hospital down. The interesting thing is this - the government has got around shutting many hospitals down permanently. For the safety of the general public, why isn't the safest option being taken? Surely that would be the most sensible thing to do under the circumstances. In each case relating to serial killers, no one has known the actual number of lives they have taken. In Shipman's case, the numbers were approximated.