Josh Halliday

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Today in Focus · Lucy Letby inquiry finds babies could have been saved - The Latest · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And the conclusions that she would draw became quite clear during the course of the inquiry.

So there were multiple failures that were identified by senior members of hospital staff in terms of how they responded to concerns that were raised about Lucy Letby from within days of three babies dying in unexplained circumstances in June 2015.

And to put that into context, that's a whole year's worth of deaths on the neonatal unit in less than two weeks.

So this inquiry was looking at how those concerns were managed by Lucy Letby's colleagues and in particular senior managers and hospital executives.

It's always been clear that there were failures in the process that is meant to investigate suspicious incidents and unusual incidents in cases like this.

But that was really made explicit in today's report.

There's just over 822 pages of inquiry findings.

It's quite clear that

the concerns that were raised by senior doctors when these first three babies died and in the subsequent months weren't taken seriously by senior managers and they weren't properly acted on when they were received by executives.

So she made 17 recommendations and they're quite sweeping calls for urgent reform in the NHS.

And there's a couple of particularly striking ones.

One is that there should be baby monitors installed on every single incubator and cot on neonatal units in hospitals.

So parents will be able to watch essentially a live feed of their baby in hospital.

Yeah, I mean, one of the things that a lot of people called for when they gave evidence to the inquiry, particularly the parents of the babies, was increased use of cameras in neonatal units, more CCTV.

But, you know, it's...

been quite strongly pushed back on by doctors and by hospital leaders who, you know, worried about the invasion of privacy as well as the practical implications of doing this.

So to see Lady Justice Stirlwall adopt this.

As her first recommendation, it's not buried in the report.

This is the main thing I think that she wants to come from the report, was really quite striking.

There are other things that you might think would be common sense, which are restricting access to insulin and recording its use on neonatal units because there were concerns that nurses may have had access to insulin when they didn't need it for clinical reasons.

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