Ravi Jayaram

Senior doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where the 33-year-old carried out her year-long killing spree on the neonatal unit, have said that hospital bosses should be regulated in a similar way to doctors and nurses. As far as I can tell the people in senior NHS management positions, there is no robust system of accountability of appraisal.

Dr Brearey told the Guardian that deaths could arguably have been avoided from as early as February 2016 if executives had “responded appropriately” to an urgent meeting request from concerned doctors. It’s a horrible thing to say but I do genuinely believe that there are four or five babies who could be going to school now who aren’t “Discussing with police at that stage would seem to be a sensible action to take,” he told the newspaper.