Hospital bosses failed to investigate allegations and tried to silence doctors, BBC investigation finds.

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.*

  • JoBo@feddit.ukEnglish
    571·
    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.ukEnglish
      17·
      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

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1325·
      1 year ago

      That is why capitalism is fundamentally stupid. It rewards the slimiest, not the best.

        • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Capitalism doesn’t have much to do with this at all. Like others have said, the NHS is a state run organization. If you want to turn this into a political issue (it really isn’t, and isn’t appropriate given the context) you should be criticizing the state and inneffective, malicious hierarchical power structures

        • RemembertheApollo@kbin.social
          86·
          1 year ago

          Just goes to show you that any system can be subverted, however, in the capitalist system the subversion is often profitable with minimal consequences for the recipients of the profits. Yay, capitalism (/s).

      • merridew@feddit.ukOPEnglish
        7·
        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.

        • optissimaEnglish
          39·
          1 year ago

          Is it using capitalist business practices internally?

          • merridew@feddit.ukOPEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Please tell me what you mean by “capitalist business practices”.

            “Ignoring warnings” is not a character flaw unique to “capitalists”.

            • Hogger85@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              It really isn’t this is the similar to say state run nuclear plants…face saving.

              I fully.support the NHS method as think it good value (if not starved of funding). But have to admit all systems can have flaws.