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

        • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eeEnglish
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          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
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          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
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        This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.

        And before anyone makes any assumptions, I am not suggesting that’s a bad thing.

        • optissimaEnglish
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          Is it using capitalist business practices internally?

          • merridew@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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            Please tell me what you mean by “capitalist business practices”.

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

            • Hogger85@feddit.ukEnglish
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              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.

  • SpaceBar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 babies died in one year, 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.

  • noride@lemm.eeEnglish
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    Then management is complicit, and should also face charges.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    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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