Member

I mention to the Committee the tragic case of the Princess of Wales Hospital: nurses were wrongly accused of falsifying patient records because of discrepancies found with computer evidence. The nurses were subjected to a criminal trial, which collapsed three years later when it was discovered that a visit by an engineer fixing a bug had taken all the data the nurses were accused of failing to gather. In that case too, women were criminalised, their careers were stopped, and one of them, sadly, committed suicide. This is not a minor matter—these are the human consequences.