Synopsis
Award-winning journalist Brian Deer investigates the circumstances surrounding the infamous drug trial conducted at a private unit in London's Northwick Park Hospital in March 2006.
- Programme: Dispatches
- Episode: The Drug Trial That Went Wrong
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2006
- Journalism
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
More clips from Dispatches
A Tax Too Far | Dispatches
A Tax Too Far | Dispatches
As local authorities prepare to send out the bills for the new council tax, Dispatches reveals how the government spent more than £20 billion to e...
Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches
Cadbury Exposed | Dispatches
Undercover in Ghana, Antony Barnett investigates Britain's best-loved chocolate brand and reveals for the first time child labour in its supply ...
China's Stolen Children | Dispatches
China's Stolen Children | Dispatches
With extraordinary access to devastated parents desperately searching for their stolen son; a man who brokers the deals and has sold his...
Cops on Trial | Dispatches
Cops on Trial | Dispatches
Dispatches reveals the scale of sexual misconduct by serving police officers. In the aftermath of Sarah Everard's murder, why isn't more being don...
For Sama | Dispatches
For Sama | Dispatches
An epic and intimate journey filmed through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria. Waad al-Kateab tells the story of how she fell in love, marrie...
Getting Away With Rape | Dispatches
Getting Away With Rape | Dispatches
Dispatches looks at the large amount of acquaintance-rape cases where so few of them turn into a conviction.
How Safe is Your Car? | Dispatches
How Safe is Your Car? | Dispatches
With new evidence that some cars might not perform as well in real world crashes as their safety rating suggests, Dispatches asks: could m...
Immigration Undercover | Dispatches
Immigration Undercover | Dispatches
Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and ther...
Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches
Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches
Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a ...
Let Our Dad Die | Dispatches
Let Our Dad Die | Dispatches
Seven years ago Tony Nicklinson had a catastrophic stroke, which left him utterly paralysed. He can only communicate via a computer controlled b...
Soccer's Foul Play | Dispatches
Soccer's Foul Play | Dispatches
A look at football coach and convicted paedophile Barry Bernell.
The Casalee File | Dispatches
The Casalee File | Dispatches
A major Berkshire-based tobacco company, The Casalee Group, now called Defco, has been secretly at the heart of the arms trade and breached int...
The Plutonium Black Market | Dispatches
The Plutonium Black Market | Dispatches
Discovering the black market in weapons grade plutonium operated from Khartoum.
The Secrets of Cadbury's | Dispatches
The Secrets of Cadbury's | Dispatches
As Easter approaches, Dispatches investigates the story behind the takeover of Britain's most famous chocolate brand.
The Torture Trail | Dispatches
The Torture Trail | Dispatches
Pfizer's Covid vaccine has saved millions of lives around the world. But with rising prices and record profits, is the drug firm profiteering ...
The Truth About Long Covid | Dispatches
The Truth About Long Covid | Dispatches
It's estimated that 500,000 people have long Covid in the UK. In Bradford, one of our worst hit cities, Dispatches asks if the NHS ca...
Vaccine Wars: Truth About Pfizer: Dispatches | Dispatches
Vaccine Wars: Truth About Pfizer: Dispatches | Dispatches
Pfizer's Covid vaccine has saved millions of lives around the world. But with rising prices and record profits, is ...
More resources about Health and Social Care
'Constant craver's'' and wanting food | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
'Constant craver's'' and wanting food | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
Some of the dieters use a grip-meter to test how much they want foods high in fat an...
'Emotional eater's'' and stress-eating | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
'Emotional eater's'' and stress-eating | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
Scientists give some of the dieter's a purposefully stressful driving test and then...
'Feaster's'' and gut hormones | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
'Feaster's'' and gut hormones | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
The scientists test the theory that some people lack a certain amount of GLP1, a gut hormone...
'Hungry'' genes and food cravings | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
'Hungry'' genes and food cravings | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
The "cravers" are strapped up with an eye tracker and results are compared with other di...
'Loot-box'' and game design | Darren McGarvey's Addictions
'Loot-box'' and game design | Darren McGarvey's Addictions
A game designer discusses gamer welfare when creating games.
1: Home | Complex
1: Home | Complex
Documenting the round-the-clock care of Nora, a non-verbal seven year-old with complex disabilities, and what that reveals about the health and social care...
1: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
1: Vaccines | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the development and delivery of the smallp...
1: We Are What We Eat | The Secrets of Your Food
1: We Are What We Eat | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the delicious science hidden inside our food. Michael begins by trying the first meal m...
2: A Matter of Taste | The Secrets of Your Food
2: A Matter of Taste | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the science of our food. James visits the Peruvian Andes to learn how a bitter potato he...
2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers
2: Fighting For Survival | The Baby Makers
The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.
2: Healthcare | Complex
2: Healthcare | Complex
Documenting the round-the-clock care of Nora, a non-verbal seven-year-old with complex disabilities, and what that reveals about the health and socia...
2: Medical Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
2: Medical Drugs | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How knowledge gained from the discovery o...
3: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
3: Data | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. Before a vaccine or an effective treatment can com...
3: Food on the Brain | The Secrets of Your Food
3: Food on the Brain | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong explore the effect that our food has on our most important and, in terms of energy consumption,...
3: Hospice | Complex
3: Hospice | Complex
Nora spends time at her local children's hospice, where the family learn about the precarious funding model for the children's palliative care sector.
3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers
3: Unnatural Practices | The Baby Makers
The technology, ethics and human stories of the assisted fertilization revolution.
4: Behaviour | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
4: Behaviour | Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Documentary series about the effect of medicine on life expectancy. How the readiness of communities to engage wi...
A Day at the Home | Further Education
A Day at the Home | Further Education
A TeachersTV production showing the day of a carer in a retirement home.
A meal for ''feaster's'' | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
A meal for ''feaster's'' | What's The Right Diet For You? A Horizon Special
An example meal for people who "feast". Once they start, they don't stop so it is recommended the...
Alcohol and the brain | The Secrets of Your Food
Alcohol and the brain | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael explains what happens to the brain when we drink alcohol.