They didnt think it appropriate to go the police at that stage. Instead, the hospital asked the Royal College of paediatrics and child health to look at what had been going on in the unit. In november, the college called for the hospital to conduct a thorough external, independent review of each unexpected neonatal death. But the deaths werent investigated fully. Was this a cover up . I dont know how youd define a cover up but to us the. The evidence in front of us was quite clear it felt that they were trying to engineer some sort of narrative or way out of this that didnt involve going to the police. And if you want to call that a cover up then, thats a cover up. There were deaths and near deaths, which could not be explained, and were unexpected. And thatjust does not happen on a neonatal unit. But unfortunately, there was a concern about how it would look. So the reputation of the organisation and protecting that reputation was a big factor in how people responded to the concerns r
Its something which you would never believe could be possible, the potential that there could be a Serial Killer in their local hospital. Tonight, the untold story of britains most unlikely Serial Killer. We were actually told we would never have um, our own children. And then i found out i was pregnant, and then we found out we were having twins on valentines day. Wow. Which was lovely. Can you remember when you first saw them . There wasjust like a sheer elation and happiness that im like, ive never felt that before or since. You rememberfeeling like a new dad . Yeah, yeah. I was very proud. The twins were born ten weeks early. They were being cared for at the Neonatal Unit of the countess of Chester Hospital. Only five days old, One Of The Boys suddenly became unwell. In the corridor, i could immediately hear crying or. It was, it felt more than crying. And i walked into the room, seeing it was my boy and he had blood round his mouth. And, and lucy was there, but faffing about, not
immediately acted upon and his experience is not unusual. you go to senior colleagues with a problem and you come away confused and anxious because that problem is being turned in a way in which you start to realise that they re seeing you as a problem. doctors and nurses all have the regulatory bodies that doctors and nurses all have the regulatory bodies that we have to answer to, and quite often we ll see senior managers who have no apparent accountability for what they do in our trusts, and they move to other trusts, and you worry about their future actions. and there doesn t seem to be any system to make them accountable and for them to justify their actions. the bbc put dr brearey s
problem and you come away confused and anxious because that problem is being turned away in which you start to realise that they are seeing you as a problem, doctors and nurses will have the regulatory bodies that we have to answer to and quite often and see senior managers who have no apparent accountability for what they do in our trusts and you worry about their future actions and there doesn t seem to be any system to make them accountable and for them to justify their actions. the bbc put dr brearey s comments to nhs england and they pointed to their updated freedom to speak policy every trust is expected to adopt. a spokesperson said:
comments to nhs england. they pointed to their updated freedom to speak policy that the bbc put dr brearey s comments to nhs england. they pointed to their updated freedom to speak policy that they say every trust is expected to adopt. well, it appears the government is open to the idea of nhs bosses facing tougher regulation. here s education secretary gillian keegan speaking to our political correspondent damian grammaticas. i think that s something that should be part of the inquiry. obviously, not only are there the answers that families need and families deserve, but there are also clearly going to be lessons that need to be learned from this case, so i think the inquiry will be something that, hopefully, can look at that in great detail.