Raising concerns: How the Letby case highlights urgent need for culture change
NHS staff must feel confident they will be listened to when they raise safeguarding issues, if tragedies like those at the Countess of Chester Hospital are never to happen again
On 18 August, Lucy Letby was convicted of the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others. She committed the crimes during shifts at the neonatal unit of the Countess of Chester Hospital.
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38, 9, 8-11.
doi: 10.7748/ns.38.9.8.s5
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