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Hospital bosses ignored months of doctors' warnings about Lucy Letby (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by merridew@feddit.uk to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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The hospital's top manager demanded the doctors write an apology to Letby and told them to stop making allegations against her

"Two consultants were ordered to attend mediation with Letby, even though they suspected she was killing babies

"On 29 June 2016, one of the consultants sent an email under the subject line: "Should we refer ourselves to external investigation?"

"I believe we need help from outside agencies," he wrote. "And the only agency who can investigate all of us, I believe, is the police.*

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[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The NHS is not capitalist, it's a centralised government managed health system.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Capitalism doesn't have much to do with this at all. Like others have said, the NHS is a state run organization. If you want to turn this into a political issue (it really isn't, and isn't appropriate given the context) you should be criticizing the state and inneffective, malicious hierarchical power structures

[–] RemembertheApollo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just goes to show you that any system can be subverted, however, in the capitalist system the subversion is often profitable with minimal consequences for the recipients of the profits. Yay, capitalism (/s).

[–] merridew@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate if you want to moan about capitalism in healthcare go and find an American community on Lemmy.

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still capitalism's fault even though I have no idea how

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They needed to maintain their reputation in order to keep their jobs and stay on this hamster wheel?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Sure, no one has ever seen a communist system be subverted and used for personal gain 🙄

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

So - who profited in case? Or are you just riding your hobbyhorse into the middle of an unrelated story

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep telling yourself that while it's slowly dismantled for profits.

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

France has the best health system in Europe with a mix of public and private providers.