Doctors who raised the alarm over Lucy Letby 'were forced to apologise to her'
19.08.2023 - 21:35
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Doctors who raised the alarm over Lucy Letby were 'ordered to apologise to her', it has been reported.
The M.E.N. has previously reported that twice hospital consultants raised concerns about Letby - but her trial heard they were urged ‘not to make a fuss’.
The 33-year-old baby killer was eventually removed from night shifts - but she carried on attacking infants during day shifts at the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. On Friday (August 18) a jury at Manchester Crown Court found Letby guilty of murdering seven babies, and guilty of attempting to murder six others during her time working at the hospital.
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Now it has been reported that medics who raised the alarm about the high number of baby collapses while she was on duty were forced to apologise to her in January 2017 following two reviews and a successful grievance lodged by the killer nurse.
One of these reviews, by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, was said to have recommended increasing staffing levels and other measures while the second review also made recommendations and urged further examination of four 'unexplained' deaths.
The Guardian reports hospital executives considered these reviews cleared Letby of wrongdoing.
The hospital's then chief executive Tony Chambers reportedly ordered doctors to write a letter of apology to her in January 2017 for repeatedly raising concerns about her.
One of those medics, Dr John Gibbs, told the newspaper: "To be told what the reviews showed without having seen them at all was a bit surprising, and then to be told we were to draw a line under the matter and that was it, and then to be instructed to send a