Harold Shipman, a general practitioner by profession, is considered one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers. He carried out the killings by releasing abnormal amounts of diamorphine into the ...

BBC Two's three-part docuseries The Harold Shipman Files: A Very British Crime Story, chronicles the atrocities committed by a Manchester GP over two decades. Instead of focusing on the killer himself ...

LONDON, Jan. 5 -- In 25 years of suburban practice, Harold Shipman gained a reputation as a hands-on physician so dedicated that he often stopped by his patients' homes between appointments. But a ...

HAROLD Shipman still “felt he was untouchable” before he took his own life, says a lawyer who encountered the prolific serial killer days before his death. Marcus Johnstone brushed shoulders with the ...

A woman who saw Harold Shipman visit a pal’s house to kill her has finally spoken of how she helped get him convicted. Gloria Ellis sparked a breakthrough in the case when she called police – linking ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors will have to undergo regular checks of their medical skills as part of a raft of measures planned to restore public trust and confidence in the profession after the case of ...

Following The Yorkshire Ripper Files that aired in early 2019, BBC commissioned another docu-series that re-examined the crimes of a British serial killer. The killer in question? Harold Shipman, a GP ...

Researchers from Imperial College London have developed a system using statistical control charts to help monitor mortality rates in general practice. Although the system, details of which are ...