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Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby (www.bbc.co.uk)
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The hospital's top manager demanded the doctors write an apology to Letby and told them to stop making allegations against her

"Two consultants were ordered to attend mediation with Letby, even though they suspected she was killing babies

"On 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: "Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?"

"I believe we need help from outside agencies," he wrote. "And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.*

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[-] JoBo@feddit.uk 56 points 1 year ago

The management team had also failed to report the deaths appropriately. It meant the wider NHS system could not spot the high fatality rates. The board of the hospital trust was also unaware of the deaths until July 2016.

This is devastating. Monitoring systems were set up after Harold Shipman, to make sure that such clear signals of something untoward would not be missed in future. Hospital management appear to have subverted those systems to protect their own reputations.

[-] plain_and_simply@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

We have to name and shame them! Ian Harvey - medical director Stephen Cross - legal Karen Rees - duty executive Tony chambers - ceo Alison Kelly

They all killed babies

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