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Nurses ‘rocked to core’ by Lucy Letby murders fear impact on public trust

Profession faces long task to reassure families and patients that crimes and apparent failings will not be repeated

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Letby: it is not being 'beige', 'average' or 'normal' that makes her crimes so hard to understand

In seeking to understand the crimes of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven babies in her care, a fixation about how “ordinary” she appears to be has emerged. At times like this, we seek answers, which perhaps explains the vague sense that understanding this apparent inconsistency can teach…

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Most US nursing homes are understaffed, potentially compromising health care for more than a million elderly residents

More than 80% of U.S. nursing homes reported staffing shortages in early 2023. SciLine interviewed Dr. Jasmine Travers, a gerontological nurse practitioner and assistant professor of nursing at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing, and asked her how the shortage affects health care for nursing home residents, if…

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Read the harrowing family victim statements killer nurse Lucy Letby refused to hear

Warning; distressing content: Parents of babies whom Lucy Letby murdered or attempted to kill spoke of their grief in emotional victim impact statements at her sentencing hearing

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby doctor’s damning verdict: NHS bosses who ignored warnings must account for nurse’s crimes

Regulate managers like doctors and nurses, says paediatrician, as families denied justice launch fresh legal action

The Independent UK

A Lucy Letby inquiry must answer this: why was she seen as a victim, not a killer?

Blinded by the nurse’s supposed ‘vulnerability’, the hospital rounded on doctors raising concerns, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

After Lucy Letby: what are new parents entitled to expect when their newborn needs specialist care?

The facts of the Lucy Letby case are harrowing. A nurse has been convicted of murdering seven of her newborn patients and attempting to murder six others. And there are suggestions that managers in the healthcare system failed to heed the concerns raised by some of Letby’s colleagues, meaning that…

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Lucy Letby: How the ‘average nurse’ turned into one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers

Letby, who has been found guilty of murdering seven babies, took advantage of her position to kill in plain sight. But despite a 10-month trial, we’re no closer to understanding the motive behind her horrifying crimes

The Independent UK

Whole-life sentences: when life in prison actually means life

Lucy Letby will die behind bars after the 33-year-old nurse was sentenced to life in prison without the prospect of parole – an incredibly rare occurrence in the British justice system.

The Week

Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives

Dr Stephen Brearey says officials ‘absolutely’ need to be regulated in similar manner to medical practitioners

The Guardian - UK

NHS bosses who ignored my warning must be held to account, Lucy Letby whistleblower says

Medics said that NHS managers should be regulated in a similar way to doctors and nurses.

The Independent UK

‘I’m not a hero, I was just doing my job’, says consultant who helped catch killer nurse Lucy Letby

Dr Ravi Jayaram raised concerns about Letby to management at the Countess of Chester Hospital

Evening Standard

Lucy Letby news – latest: Whistleblower hits out at NHS failings after concerns about killer nurse ignored

Warning: distressing content. Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby motive: Why did serial killer nurse murder seven babies?

Prosecutors put forward several possible motives as to why Letby murdered babies

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Lucy Letby victim was buried in woollen gown chosen as gift by killer nurse, court told

Mother of victim said she felt ‘sickened’ by the decision

The Independent UK

Killer nurse Letby has destroyed our lives, say parents of murdered triplets

The deaths in June 2016 were the ‘tipping point’ for consultants who suspected Letby was to blame.

The Independent UK

Where will Lucy Letby go to prison? Inside jail where killer nurse expected to spend rest of her days

Killer nurse will likely be incarcerated at HMP Low Newton, which previously housed murderer Rosemary West

The Guardian - UK

NHS’s culture of denial allowed Lucy Letby to keep killing babies

Letters: Dr Maybelle Wallis says the health service’s authoritarian management culture has to change. Plus letters from Sharon Grant, Eddie Dougall and a nurse who tried to raise a complaint

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The Independent UK

Lucy Letby victim was buried in woollen gown chosen by killer nurse, court told

The mother of Child E told Manchester Crown Court she felt ‘sickened’ by that decision.

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby victims’ parents tell killer nurse she is ‘nothing’

‘My family will never think of you again from this day,’ the 33-year-old murderer was told.

Evening Standard

Lucy Letby sentencing: Court hears harrowing statements from families of killer nurse’s victims

Parents of babies who nurse murdered or attempted to kill spoke of their grief in emotional victim impact statements at the child killer’s sentencing hearing

France 24

British nurse Lucy Letby sentenced to life in prison over killing of seven newborns

A former neonatal nurse who killed seven babies in her care and tried to kill six others at a hospital in northern England was sentenced Monday to life in prison with no chance of release by a judge who highlighted “the cruelty and calculation" of her actions.

The Independent UK

Lucy Letby: How the ‘average nurse’ turned into one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Letby sentenced to whole-life jail term after murdering seven babies

Former nurse will never be released from prison as judge describes ‘deep malevolence bordering on sadism’

The Week

Lucy Letby: why wasn’t nurse caught sooner?

Lucy Letby has been jailed for life today, with no chance of parole, for the murder of seven newborns and attempting to kill another six, making her the most prolific baby killer in modern British history.

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