A doctor says she felt “misled” by bosses who failed to tell her a member of staff was suspected by consultants of deliberately harming babies, the inquiry over the crimes of Lucy Letby has heard.
Consultant neonatologist Dr Jane Hawdon, from London’s Royal Free Hospital, was tasked by the Countess of Chester Hospital’s medical director Ian Harvey to carry out a case note review of 17 babies – 13 who died and four described as “near misses” – after another independent probe had failed to identify any explanation for an increase in neonatal mortality in 2015 and 2016.
