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The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives

Lucy Letby being taken into custody by police in 2018
Lucy Letby being taken into custody by police in 2018. The ex-nurse was sentenced on Monday to a whole-life term for murdering seven babies. Photograph: Cheshire constabulary/Reuters

NHS executives should be regulated similarly to medical practitioners, the paediatrician who first raised the alarm on Lucy Letby has said, after clinicians’ concerns about her after years of concerns were “turned on the head”.

The behaviour and accountability of senior officials within the health service “absolutely” needed to be regulated, said Dr Stephen Brearey, who first carried out an urgent review into the nurse sentenced on Monday to a whole-life term for the “sadistic” murders of seven babies.

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