Sir Duncan Nichol says board was told there was ‘no criminal activity pointing to any one individual’ after reviews in late 2016
The former chair of the NHS trust where serial killerSir Duncan Nichol, who was the board’s chair, said it was told there was “no criminal activity pointing to any one individual” after two hospital-commissioned reviews in late 2016.
A government-commissioned inquiry will examine why the children’s nurse was allowed to continue on the unit despite senior doctors raising concerns about her for months. Hawdon is understood to have told Ian Harvey, the hospital’s medical director, that she did not have the time to conduct the thorough investigation the royal college had recommended.
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