It's often claimed that palliative medicine has made such progress in recent years that everyone should be able to have a pain-free death. Yet thousands who see family members die tell a different story - a story of pain and misery as a result of inadequate pain control. Gerry Northam asks to what extent this is due to the Shipman Effect: has the fact that Britain's worst serial killer, Harold Shipman , murdered his patients with drugs that are normally used legitimately to alleviate pain at the end of life, left many doctors over-reluctant to prescribe and administer them? Producer Kristine Pommert Rptd Sunday 5pm