Hyde

So we're eight practices that come together.

We're in the town of Hyde, which is a town with some deprivation in Greater Manchester in Tameside.

Tameside is a part of one of the 10 local authorities of Greater Manchester.

We have a population of weighted population of about 80,000.

It's a challenging population that you're working with.

When PCN started, did you have an idea as a group of practices, well, this is how we want the PCN to work?

Well, we'd been really lucky in Hyde in that we'd been working together for a number of years, probably around 2006, 2007.

We'd done a cardiovascular outreach work.

Meet Dr. Harold Shipman, who, by the numbers, is one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history.

Shipman was a general practitioner in Hyde, a suburb of Manchester, England.

To his community, he was a throwback in the best way, a devoted family doctor who still made house calls, remembered your grandchildren's names, and took his time with every appointment.

Patients adored him.

The inquiry that eventually reconstructed his career traced the first known victim to March 1975.

Ava Lyons killed the day before her 71st birthday while Shipman was working at a practice in West Yorkshire.

Another 71 patients were murdered during his years at a group practice in Hyde.

And then after 1992, when he set up as a solo practitioner, no partners, no colleagues glancing at his files, the killing accelerated.

Never at the beginning of the investigation did I ever envisage that I'd be dealing with not only one murder investigation but a number of murder investigations.

Inspector Edgerton had been asked to look into the will of Kathleen Grundy, who died suddenly on June 24, 1998, at her home in Joel Lane, Hyde, on the outskirts of Manchester.

Mrs Grundy, a former mayoress of Hyde, was well known about the town as a sprightly 81-year-old, involved in a host of social activities.

She was highly respected in the area.

She spent all her spare time working on behalf of other people.

Spa.

She realised that there must be something wrong because she is a solicitor in her own right and had in fact got a mother's will in her possession that had been made some ten years prior to her death.

Confused and alarmed, Mrs Woodruff turned private detective and, armed with a copy of the Shipman Will, she travelled to Hyde to track down the two people who had allegedly witnessed it.