This whole affair is beyond a national disgrace. Negligence, dereliction of duty and cover ups beyond comprehension. As much as we all love the NHS, it isn’t fit for purpose any longer, it needs route and branch restructure, serious funding for recruitment, retention and urgent training. Failures, cover ups, mismanagement from the politicians down through years have all contributed, but non more so than the tories.
It doesn’t stop there sadly, C.E.O’s, Directors and Managers with no NHS experience, on huge salaries trying to run it as a private business and you can’t. They lose sight of what they are there to provide, patting themselves on the back for finding short cuts, savings, employing clerical staff to justify their own positions, when the need for investment in appropriately paid staff (dr’s nurses etc) across the service. We all need to pay more in taxes as it wont be fundable within current taxation. There are far too many people chasing their own tails currently that the Lucy Letby’s and Shipmans et al don’t get noticed quickly enough. There is also an element of fear in reporting within current structures from above that needs urgently addressing. Whistleblowers should be rewarded, not bullied or removed.
Whatever term she gets, I doubt she will survive prison. This is a case where those in favour of the death penalty will win support.
