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• Nurses ‘rocked to core’ by Lucy Letby murders fear impact on public trust

  22-08-2023 19:05
  
  Profession faces long task to reassure families and patients that crimes and apparent failings will not be repeatedAt hospitals around the UK nurses continue to pull on fresh scrubs and prepare for another day caring for patients. But many have been “rocked to the core” by the Lucy Letby case and some fear the foundation of public trust has been shaken.That was the message from senior nurses on Tuesday as the horror of the child killer’s sentencing sank in and the profession br
  
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• Nurses ‘rocked to core’ by Lucy Letby murders and fear impact on public trust

  22-08-2023 19:05
  
  Profession faces long task to reassure families and patients that crimes and apparent failings will not be repeatedAt hospitals around the UK nurses continue to pull on fresh scrubs and prepare for another day’s caring. But many have been “rocked to the core” by the Lucy Letby case and some fear the foundation of trust with the public “has been shaken”.That was the message from senior nurses on Tuesday as the horror of the child killer’s sentencing sank in and
  
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• Lucy Letby: doctor who raised alarm calls for regulation of NHS executives

  22-08-2023 10:45
  
  Dr Stephen Brearey says officials ‘absolutely’ need to be regulated in similar manner to medical practitionersNHS executives should be regulated similarly to medical practitioners, the paediatrician who first raised the alarm on Lucy Letby has said, after clinicians’ concerns about her were “turned on the head”.The behaviour and accountability of senior officials within the health service “absolutely” needed to be regulated, said Dr Stephen Brearey, who
  
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