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Sir Duncan Nichol, the former chairman of the Countess of Chester Hospital, has called his decision not to invite senior consultants to a meeting where concerns about the nurse who murdered seven babies under her care were discussed, “a big personal failure”. Speaking at a public inquiry into the hospital’s response to the crimes committed by Lucy Letby between June 2015 and June 2016, Sir Duncan said he should have invited the consultants who had raised concerns about Letby to the 10 January 2017 meeting.
At that meeting, the medical director of the hospital outlined his plans to “assist” Letby’s return to work on the neo-natal unit from where she had been removed on clerical duties following senior consultant’s concerns. Dr Ravi Jayaram, one of the consultants, has previously described the meeting as a “whitewash”, saying that the senior consultants had expected to again raise their concerns about Letby’s links to unexplained baby deaths.
Sir Duncan also acknowledged what he called “a big failure” in not inviting the consultants to the meeting. “I regard it as a personal big failure on my part that the consultants were present at the first extraordinary board meeting and they were not present at this one, and they should have been,” he said.
The inquiry also heard that there was a belief that Letby was the cause of worrying and sudden falls in babies’ oxygen levels. Dr Jim McCormick compared Letby’s behaviour to notorious murderers Harold Shipman and Beverly Allitt at a meeting attended by senior formal and clinical staff at the hospital in June 2016, saying that her actions were “akin to Dr Shipman and in fact the Allitt case”. At that meeting, Dr Jayaram argued for Letby’s immediate suspension and suggested that the police should be informed. No such action was taken and no referral to the police was made until May 2017
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