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.uk
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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.uk
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      1711 months 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

      • Bernie Ecclestoned
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        The NHS is not capitalist, it’s a centralised government managed health system.

        • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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          511 months 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

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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).

          • Bernie Ecclestoned
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            France has the best health system in Europe with a mix of public and private providers.

      • @merridew@feddit.ukOP
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        811 months ago

        This is a publicly funded NHS hospital.

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

          • @merridew@feddit.ukOP
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            611 months ago

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

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

            • @Hogger85@feddit.uk
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              111 months 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.