Lucy Letby (Politics)

[Wile E. Coyote]

This documentary cost £100.00 its by Guy Rowland, its called "the botched investigation of Lucy Letby" and its a fscinating insight, into how the start of the investigation occurred, things like why the Police switched from seeking assistance from a multi-discplinary team of experts, to going with a single ex pediatrician backed up by the hospital consultants who were actually under fire for poor medical care........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Ed565aCm8

[Mick Harper]

One critical step was slightly sidestepped I thought. The (impressive, unless you knew) copper-in-charge mentioned at one point they had been given Letby's name before anything substantive had been put in train, and later insisted they had come to the Lucy conclusion by their own means of deductive elimination. We all here know that is fatal.

It would be nice to find out why the police gave this particular documentary-maker such unprecedented co-operation. Is, for example, interrogation footage now public product? If so, it should be up on the internet in its entirety for nerds to pore over.

True, the Netflix name may have had more allure than 'I'm trying to sell it to ITV' but they must have known at this late stage in the cycle, they would be getting a roasting.

[Mick Harper]

From what we did see, Letby herself came across as very innocent. Or, as may be, is a consummate actress.* It would be interesting to hear whether any of the individual police interrogators noticed any difference between her and their usual suspects.

* Or, as also may be, my a priori opinions are getting in the way.

[Wile E. Coyote]

[Mick Harper]

The prosecution should have been prosecuted but in this country 'quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' is not applied to ours.

PS The police are fond of letting their rotten apples retire on full pension rather than face the music.

[Mick Harper]

Two developments this week. Letby killed some of the babies by insulin poisoning. The jury had difficulty with one case because she hadn't been on duty at the time. That one needed a retrial but Lucy was still convicted because the baby died of insulin poisoning and it was hardly likely two baby killers were active on the ward at the same time.

A paper has just come out in the peer-reviewed Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology showing babies can have all the symptoms of insulin poisoning without being given any insulin at all! In ordinary circumstances this would be sufficient grounds for appeal. But since this was a retrial and Letby is serving so many life sentences anyway, they probably won't bother.

The other breakthrough comes courtesy of the long awaited and slow-starting Lady Justice Thirlwell enquiry. Putting the mountains of evidence together for her honour, someone noted an email from one of the doctors confirming that Letby had called him about Baby K despite the same doctor being categorical during the trial she had done no such thing. Worse, he said in the witness box it was this omission that aroused his suspicion about the nurse in the first place.

OK, just another loose end the jury had to consider. The problem was the email was from a stash of evidence that hadn't been disclosed to the defence. And this one would have been a proverbial coach and horses. But sleep tight, Lucy, it can't be used as a basis for an appeal until the enquiry has reported, and that's years away.

[Wile E. Coyote]

[Wile E. Coyote]

Its disappointing that with over £15 million spent, Thirlwell is so delayed.

The spiralling costs and delays of Enquiries is becoming a scandal in itself

We need a Enquiry into this, but ....

[Mick Harper]

There's a bit of a backlog for all the enquiries into malpractices at various NHS maternity units. Or maybe they've given up on them. Or maybe daren't go ahead with them.

The truth is that the NHS model is way out of date. It was OK--actually more than that--when health provision expectations were pretty basic and a national scheme was feasible. Now, the whole thing is so unwieldy it has devolved into local satrapies under the control of whoever among the local management and consultants is ruling the local roost.

All the Department of Health in London can do is eke a bit more out of the Treasury and give everyone a handout, while stepping in when a local hospital group either runs out of money or runs out of public trust. The GP's have been left to make their own arrangements with their patients i.e. make it as hard as possible to see your GP, then you're sent off for hospital tests to get rid of you.

And all this will continue, and continue to get worse, because everyone is obliged to say how much we love our NHS. What we love is 'health care free at the point of delivery'. There are are lots of better ways of providing that.

[Wile E. Coyote]

GPs.....

They clearly dont want to visit me. They dont want me to visit them, unless I am sick. I dont know whether I am sick enough to visit, so I call 911. They advise me to book an appointent, which I cant get. When I recall 911, they advise me to go to A and E, or a clinic. There I might get the advice I need.

Many folks now skip the GP bit and 911 bit as its easier to move directly onto the attand A and E bit.

The model is failing.

We dont need 911 staff, GP receptionists and GPs as well as A and Es, pharmacies, ambulance staff etc all acting as primary gatekeepers.

I suspect the era of the GP is coming to an end.

[Mick Harper]

It's the ability to get any pill you want off the internet that's spelling their doom.

[Wile E. Coyote]

[Mick Harper]