Doctor exposes understaffing at Baby P hospital

Baby Peter could have been saved if managers at a London hospital where he was treated had listened to fears raised by senior doctors more than a year before the toddler’s death, a consultant paediatrician said today.

Dr Kim Holt, who worked at St Ann’s Hospital in Haringey, north London, said she and three colleagues wrote an open letter detailing problems at the clinic in 2006.