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PETITION

Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Gateshead)

11.34 pm

Joyce Quin (Gateshead, East and Washington, West): I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to present a petition on behalf of some 600 constituents and residents of the Gateshead area who wish to raise fundamental concerns and questions about the treatment of a number of women patients at our local hospital during the 1980s and 1990s at the hands of two consultants who have since been struck off the medical register.

The issue has caused much local concern, and much anguish and suffering to the women affected, some of whom live in my constituency. Others live in the constituencies of my hon. Friends the Members for Tyne Bridge (Mr. Clelland), for Jarrow (Mr. Hepburn) and for Blaydon (Mr. McWilliam).

The petitioners request:

That the House of Commons takes steps to obtain redress of their grievance by calling on Her Majesty's Government to set up a public inquiry into the mistreatment, negligence and misconduct of consultant Peter Silverstone and Dr. Janusz Wszeborowski and the subsequent cover-up by the Queen Elizabeth hospital authorities.


And the petitioners remain, etc.

To lie upon the Table.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved,

That this House do now adjourn.—[Angela Smith.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-five minutes to Twelve midnight.

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