Team have changed, for example the Chief Executive of the Hospital Trust left, the Medical Director left, they both left in 2018. And so it is a new Management Team now, but they are left with the very difficult position of trying to justify what happened before they came into office. But it is the case that members of staff have told the bbc that when they tried to raise legitimate concerns about what was going on in the unit, they were ignored by management. So there are Big Questions to be answered, and i think it is inevitable, as i said, that people will be calling for a Public Inquiry into what has happened here. Are Public Inquiry into what has happened here. Public inquiry into what has happened here. Are there still lessons to happened here. Are there still lessons to be happened here. Are there still lessons to be learned happened here. Are there still lessons to be learned from happened here. Are there still| lessons to be learned from this because we have seen the trial and
Its something which you would never believe could be possible, the potential that there could be a Serial Killer in their local hospital. Tonight, the untold story of britains most unlikely Serial Killer. We were actually told we would never have um, our own children. And then i found out i was pregnant, and then we found out we were having twins on valentines day. Wow. Which was lovely. Can you remember when you first saw them . There wasjust like a sheer elation and happiness that im like, ive never felt that before or since. You rememberfeeling like a new dad . Yeah, yeah. I was very proud. The twins were born ten weeks early. They were being cared for at the Neonatal Unit of the countess of Chester Hospital. Only five days old, One Of The Boys suddenly became unwell. In the corridor, i could immediately hear crying or. It was, it felt more than crying. And i walked into the room, seeing it was my boy and he had blood round his mouth. And, and lucy was there, but faffing about, not
we will discuss this after ten o clock. that is when the sentencing starts. just some breaking news about one of the key figures in the lucy letby case. alison kelly is the former director of nursing at the countess of chester hospital during the time when letby murdered and seriously injured babies in her care. nhs england has now confirmed that she has been suspended. a spokesperson for the organisation said we welcome the independent inquiry announced by the department of health and social care into the events at the countess of chester and will cooperate fully to help ensure all lessons are learned. in light of information that has emerged during the trial of lucy letby, and the announcement of the independent inquiry, the northern care alliance has suspended alison kelly. lucy letby s trial heard how warnings about the nurse s behaviour
we have heard of since those verdicts were delivered from various people who worked there at the time, but he was saying that lessons had been learned, he talked about operating procedures being changed as a result of that. we can talk to our health correspondent, dominic hughes, who was listening outside the hospital. there is a lot of focus, he talked about the families, he talked about changes being made, but there are calls already for an inquiry into how this could have happened and for so long. yeah, i think that is happened and for so long. yeah, i think that is almost happened and for so long. yeah, i think that is almost inevitable, . think that is almost inevitable, isn t it? given the scale of what we have heard during the course of lucy letby s trial, and in what we have heard since the trial has ended from members of staff here who tried to raise legitimate concerns about what was going on in that unit and were ignored by management. now, i have to say that the managem
in manchester, lucy letby s trial has been going on for three months. this is the neonatal unit. how long have i got to script over that opening? well, i ve got the sort of door shot. i ve been here most days. this is the neonatal unit at the countess of chester hospital where lucy letby worked. it s an odd feeling in the courtroom. you know, you ve got the parents of each baby sitting listening to this very harrowing evidence, and just a few yards away, behind the glass of the dock, lucy letby is sitting, listening. she s generally passive, no real expression. it s really hard to try and read lucy letby, to tell what she s thinking. i m finding that very hard. that courtroom, as you will know, it s such a highly emotional and charged place to be