Madeleine father goes back to work

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Before arriving at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, the consultant cardiologist said: "We have always said that at six months we didn't want to look back and say I wish we had done that and wish we had done this.

"But now we feel we have done everything we can do to establish the search for Madeleine on an ongoing basis and we feel we have the proper infrastructure now in place to find her."

He continued: "That in turn allows me to concentrate on returning to work properly.

"My colleagues here at Glenfield Hospital have been absolutely fantastic in their support for both Kate and I throughout this and I am very pleased to be rejoining them and to get back a degree of normality with a working routine."

Mr McCann, who has been on unpaid leave, will begin a phased return, starting on three half-days a week.

He will concentrate on his specialist area of MRI scans.

He will split his time between his MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) work at Glenfield Hospital and British Heart Foundation research on the three-dimensional scans of patients with narrowed heart valves.

Doug Skehan, clinical director of the hospital's cardio-respiratory directorate, said: "My colleagues at Leicester's hospitals look forward to welcoming him back as he returns to work after a lengthy and difficult period of absence.

"In short, we're glad to have a good doctor back."