Thread by @MartynPitman

File on 4 Investigates - Letby Hospital: Maternity failings at the Countess of Chester - BBC Sounds

From the time of my first interest and involvement in the #LucyLetby case I declared that the failure to forensically investigate the Maternity and ...share.google/2LLGg6C5UrDezF…

...Obstetric records of the indictment cases was a medicolegal travesty. It was obvous that many of the babies were very far from 'well and stable' as the hapless Dewi Evans claimed. I also felt that it was remotely unlikely that a Maternity Unit, with such demonstrably poor...

...Neonatal care, would not have similar deficiencies in their Maternity and Obstetric services. Recent contact with parents from the CofCH, including those featured in tonight's devastating File on 4 exposé, have reinforced these beliefs. Distressing though this programme was...

...it barely scratched the surface of these harrowing cases. I feel certain that many more parents have similar tales to tell. We learn from the Journalists that the CPS are declining to release the Maternity records for the cases. CofCH are also obstructing parental requests...

...for their notes, despite having a legal right to unredacted copies of them. One has to wonder why?

Under questioning Dewi Evans failed to mention that it was following his advice that the NCA's recommendation to appoint a multidisciplianry panel of experts, incuding an...

...Obstetrician was ignored. It is simply impossible to perceive that he actually believes that the antenatal and delivery histories of the indictment cases were of such minimal relevance to their post-natal course and outcomes. Evans is a disgrace to himself. He is an even...

...bigger disgrace to the entire Medical profession. His time is surely running out, with experts of the calibre of Prof Phil Bennett, one of the most senior, respected and most widely published UK Obstetricians now calling him out.

CCRC / CofA re you watching?