Health secretary says plans for cot cams in baby wards being developed ‘urgently’ after Lucy Letby inquiry report – latest updates

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Yvette Cooper says this must ‘be a turning point for the NHS’ and tells the Commons she is ‘profoundly sorry’ for mistakes highlighted in Thirlwall report Three babies may have survived if hospital had acted over Lucy Letby concerns, inquiry finds Lady Justice Thirlwall said that senior nurses at the hospital refused to accept the consultant’s concerns could be justified, and criticised the “prolonged delay by senior managers in calling the police”.
The police were eventually contacted in May 2017, around a year after the death of baby P in June 2016, and despite the fact Letby had been removed from neonatal unit. There was also complete failure…
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