Context
Dr Murthy Saladi, consultant paediatrician, was among the signatories of the September 2016 joint letter demanding police involvement. His Thirlwall Inquiry evidence is one of the collective record of consultant voices warning Trust management about the cluster of deaths.
Key ground
Dr Murthy Saladi
As clinicians, once we had formed the collective concern we expressed in the September 2016 letter, we believed there was no further professional discretion available to us. Escalation to the police was the only remaining step. It took eight more months to happen.