A probe into evil neonatal nurse Lucy Letby's baby killings will examine if NHS bosses have learned from serial killers operating in the health service in the past.Health bosses will be quizzed on how the NHS acted after killer nurse Beverley Allitt and Harold Shipman's murder sprees.
In the wake of the two workers horror crimes, health chiefs were handed a string of recommendationsBut after Lucy Letby was allowed to kill seven babies, the probe into her crimes will examine if bosses learned anything from those horrific episodes.The Thirlwall Inquiry, which opens tomorrow, will also urge the parents of her tiny victims to share their ordeals.
Barrister Sir Robert Francis KC has been asked to examine how the NHS responded to Allitt and Shipman’s orgies of death, The Mirror reports.Solicitor Tamlin Bolton, representing families of six Letby victims, said: “He has been asked to look back at things like Shipman, Beverley Allitt, the Mid-Staffs inquiry and consider the recommendations that followed. “What the recommendations were, how they were meant to be implemented, whether they were implemented, and how they have assisted or changed NHS practice.“The families will hopefully be asked for submissions and what they would like to see recommended to prevent this happening in the future.” Allitt, 55, was convicted of murdering four infants and attempting to kill three others at a Lincolnshire hospital in 1991.
Like Letby, she used insulin in her attacks. Allitt is serving life in prison.GP Shipman was found guilty in 2000 of murdering 15 women with overdoses of morphine while working at Hyde, Gtr Manchester.He was jailed for life, but hanged himself in his cell at Wakefield jail in January 2004, aged 57.
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