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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Josh Halliday North of England correspondent

Doctors were forced to apologise for raising alarm over Lucy Letby and baby deaths

The Countess of Chester hospital on 3 July 2018
The Countess of Chester hospital is facing serious questions about how it responded to concerns over Lucy Letby. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

Lucy Letby’s colleagues were ordered to apologise to her after repeatedly raising concerns that the nurse may have been behind a series of unexplained baby deaths, the Guardian has learned.

Senior doctors had warned for months that Letby was the only staff member present during the sudden collapses and deaths of a number of premature babies on the Countess of Chester hospital’s neonatal unit.

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