Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66120934

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 ⁨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.

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- MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That is why capitalism is fundamentally stupid. It rewards the slimiest, not the best.
  
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  - bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The NHS is not capitalist, it’s a centralised government managed health system.
    
    Nice self own there.
    
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  - HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What are you talking about?
    
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  - merridew@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.
    
    And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that’s a bad thing.
    
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  - ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why would America do this?
    
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Spacebar@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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6 babies died in two years, and she was on duty for all of them. Since she stopped caring for patience, there has been 1 death in 7 years.

Normally, there is one death every two years.

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noride@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Then management is complicit, and should also face changes.

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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations against Lucy Letby and tried to silence doctors, the lead consultant at the neonatal unit where she worked has told the BBC.

They say the head of corporate affairs and legal services, Stephen Cross, warned that calling the police would be a catastrophe for the hospital and would turn the neonatal unit into a crime scene.

Rather than go to the police, Mr Harvey invited the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath (RCPCH) to review the level of service on the neonatal unit.

A few weeks later, in late January 2017, the seven consultants on the neonatal unit were summoned to a meeting with senior managers, including Mr Harvey and the hospital’s CEO Tony Chambers.

When a new medical director and deputy chief executive, Dr Susan Gilby, began work the month after Letby’s arrest, she was shocked at what she found.

She says her predecessor, Mr Harvey, had warned her she would need to pursue action with the General Medical Council, the doctor’s regulator, against the neonatal unit’s consultants - those who had raised the alarm.

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