Now-retired Ian Harvey has been giving evidence to the Thirlwall Inquiry
A retired hospital chief has denied he could have prevented the murders of two triplet boys by nurse Lucy Letby, a public inquiry has heard. Letby injected air into the newborns on successive days at the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit in June 2016 as part of a series of attacks from a year earlier in which she murdered seven infants and attempted to murder seven more.
Richard Baker KC, representing families of Letby’s victims, said the parents of Child O and P regarded the meeting as a “missed opportunity” to avoid the deaths of their sons. Mr Harvey said he did not accept that proposition. Mr Baker said: “Did you not see anything significant about the fact that all of these deteriorations were occurring on night shifts?” Mr Harvey replied: “There is evidence that standards of care are lower at weekends and at night...
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