A fierce clash erupted on GB News between commentator Carole Malone and Jonathan Lis over whether doctors who treated Nottingham attacker Valdo Calocane should be publicly named.
The heated exchange centred on demands from victims’ families for individual medical staff to be held accountable for their treatment decisions before Calocane’s killing spree.
Malone launched a scathing criticism of the medical team’s decisions on GB News, calling their approach “appalling.”
She said: “This is appalling when you have a medical team who they didn’t want to put him under.
Carole Malone and Jonathan Lis entered into a furious clash over the NHS
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“I think they called it a repressive regime. Nurses were begging doctors to give him this medication because they couldn’t be alone with him.
“Doctors were telling the medical team, this man will kill someone. Now he has. Families are left without the people they love because of this idiot medical team didn’t force the medication. We need to know their names.”
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Jonathan Lis responded: “I completely understand why the family is so angry about this and why they want accountability. I see that perspective.
“I just don’t know what good it will do to release the names of these workers who were doing presumably the best job that they could do.”
Malone fumed: “Oh come on. It shows they don’t understand the illness. So we can get them out of these jobs because they’re not fit to carry on in the job.”
He said: “I am not in the NHS. I’m not their manager. I’m not able to evaluate whether the failures that they did were because of their own failings, because of the NHS more broadly or because the guidelines”
Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order in January after pleading guilty to manslaughterGB News
She added: “You are talking tosh Jonathan. This is a maniac who would have been less of a maniac had he been forced to take his medication.”
The families’ calls for individual accountability were led by Grace O’Malley-Kumar’s parents, both medical professionals themselves.
Sanjoy Kumar, Grace’s father and a GP, said the report had “failed to name individuals responsible for the failure to treat Calocane appropriately.”
“We will be asking the secretary of state for health to order the trust to hold individual doctors responsible,” he stated.
Calocane was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order for killing three people and attempting to kill three others in Nottingham on 13 June 2023.
The families are set to meet government ministers next week to discuss a promised public inquiry into the attacks and Calocane’s treatment.
The Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust issued an unreserved apology for missed opportunities in Calocane’s care.