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Tuesday briefing: How the NHS ‘culture of concealment and denial’ hurts patients

In today’s newsletter: Amid many other crises, the standard of NHS care for patients’ families is declining – this is what it feels like

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2024

OPINION - I lost my baby girl, so I know Lucy Letby’s victims need to see justice done

It’s strange how these things affect you. After my second child Zola died last spring, shortly after being born, my wife and I went through absolute hell. Grief will tear you apart — as Joy Division might have put it.

Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2023

Lucy Letby: child murder case highlights need to regulate managers and improve whistleblowing procedures

The recent conviction of Lucy Letby, the neonatal nurse who murdered seven infants and attempted to murder six others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015-2016, has raised fundamental questions about how something like this could have happened – and why it took so long to stop…

The Conversation · Aug 25, 2023

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 · Aug 22, 2023

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 · Aug 22, 2023

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 · Aug 22, 2023

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 · Aug 22, 2023

Full judicial inquiry into horror Lucy Letby killings moves step closer

As pressure grows on NHS managers accused of ignoring doctors’ warnings

Evening Standard · Aug 22, 2023

Tuesday briefing: Life term for UK’s worst child killer

In today’s newsletter: serious questions have been raised after the trial and conviction of a serial baby murderer • Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition

The Guardian - UK · Aug 22, 2023

Lucy Letby jailed for life: Nurse refuses to face court in ‘final act of wickedness’

Anguish and fury of murdered babies’ families as ‘devil’ nurse refuses to face them in court – and judge gives her full-life term citing her ‘deep malevolence bordering on sadism’

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2023