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Hospital Where Lucy Letby Worked Suffered Bacteria Outbreak Lethal to Babies in 2015-16

by Will Jones
4 August 2024 3:00 PM

The neonatal unit where Lucy Letby worked suffered an outbreak of bacteria lethal to babies in 2015-16, a leaked risk report shows. The Telegraph has the story.

In August 2023, Letby was convicted of the murders of seven newborns and the attempted murders of six other infants. A retrial in July also found her guilty of the attempted murder of another child.

Since the conviction, numerous scientists, statisticians and doctors have expressed their concern about the evidence presented to the jury regarding shift patterns, medical conclusions and the standard of care at the Countess of Chester.

It has now emerged that at the time when infant mortality rates spiked at the Countess of Chester hospital between 2015 and 2016 – the years in which Letby was convicted of killing the infants – the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa had colonised taps in the nurseries of the neonatal unit, including intensive care.

Pseudomonas is known to be lethal to vulnerable babies. In 2012, a premature baby died and 12 others needed treatment at Southmead Hospital in Bristol after an outbreak of a water-borne bacterium.

Three premature babies also died after contracting the bug at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in Belfast January 2012. In that case, sink taps were found to be the source of infection. A baby had died from the same infection six weeks earlier in Derry.

David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology, at the University of East Anglia said: “Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an environmental organism that likes moisture.

“It can be lethal in newborns, especially premature ones, who lack a properly developed immune system.

“From mid-2015 to mid-2016 there were around 17 infant deaths at the Countess of Chester unit.

“We are asked to believe that this comprised two superimposed clusters, one of seven murders by Lucy Letby, and one where, to quote the crown prosecution expert, they died for the usual problems why small babies die: haemorrhage, infection, congenital problems.

“It is simpler to believe that we are looking at a single spike of fatal infections in a chaotic unit.”

The risk report leaked to the Telegraph, showed that the Countess of Chester hospital had been dealing with Pseudomonas since at least May 2015 when there were fears about transferring babies from nearby Arrowe Park Hospital.

The risk score was reduced in August 2015, when there had been no infections in neonates, but in December 2015, a tap in intensive care tested positive for the bug and had to be replaced.

In the same month a tap in another baby ward also tested positive but the report warned that there was no capacity to replace it, so filters were fitted instead. The report said the filters would remain in place “until we get the all clear”.

Notes show that by the middle of February 2016, staff had still not received this confirmation.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: BabiesBacteriaHealthLucy LetbyNHS

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago

Could we find someone like this to run our Civil Service?

Everybody employed in public service needs to hear this sort of language. All DEI staff should be sacked, every single one by way of putting down a marker. This Third World Shithole needs putting into reverse.

MEGA.

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Smudger
Smudger
6 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

I’m presuming Dimon is directing his ire at managers and rightly so these people are incredibly well paid. Low income staff WFH may be a different case in point. Transport costs and time travelling take up so much time and money many argue that they are only marginally better off than those on welfare.

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Ardandearg
Ardandearg
6 months ago

Make JP Morgan Great Again. Come to work in person.

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FerdIII
FerdIII
6 months ago

Totally agree with Dimon. WFH is being abused and from my own experience results in a lot less work being done. One of the ‘symptoms’ from the Rona plandemic fascism. I can’t imagine how inefficient the unlimited # of gov’t-civil service gnomes are with WFH.

In the UK one of the great challenges is the sheer cost of transportation. To get into our Canary Wharf office, 3-4 x a week, costs about £3500 a year or more for me. Most large firms do give a car allowance which can be used for this, so I am fine, but many firms do not pay any travel costs. It is a challenge for a lot of people who can’t afford to live near their work.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

TBH even living several thousand pounds a year away from central London, the prices of houses are still very high for young people starting out.

For me it wasn’t the money cost of the commute, it’s the time. 3 hours a day. I am a lot less tired now.

I do think it must be a bit weird for young people to be at home, doesn’t seem healthy to me. I am an old git and don’t want to listen to my normie colleagues talking crap.

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Many did that before you and earned much less in real terms.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
6 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

When I worked at Victoria and the City my employers allowed you to pay for your season ticket monthly as opposed to having to find the whole amount at once. I used to read or sleep on the train.

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
6 months ago

I think Dimon is right, even though I work from home most days of the week.
I do CAD work and I don’t need to be in the office for that.
I commuted for 15 years – two hours on the road every day and that’s was two hours when the traffic wasn’t bad.
But he is right; a lot of people will take the mickey.

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Monro
Monro
6 months ago

Consider the fact that people are not paying attention because you are boring and there are too many unnecessary meetings.

Consider the fact that people don’t want to come in to the office because it is an unattractive unhealthy and inefficient working environment

Consider the fact that inadequate leadership is not inspiring subordinates or supervising their WFH to ensure that standards are maintained.

Consider the fact that any daily commute also significantly detracts from performance and job satisfaction.

Youngsters keen to get on will generally attend the office as required. If senior staff are not voluntarily attending to offer leadership, mentoring, then you have appointed the wrong senior staff.

Ranting kind of gives the game away; unattractive at best, at worst indicative of a bullying management style.

This gentleman should take a serious look in the mirror.

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Hardliner
Hardliner
6 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Dimon has been a successful leader of a dynamic company for many years, probably decades

You might be the sort of person he has in mind when he says “You don’t have to work for J P Morgan”…..

If you’re in the boat, row, otherwise get out and swim home

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Monro
Monro
6 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Glassdoor:

Cons

  • “long hours and sometimes not a lot of work to fill up the time until much later in the day” (in 799 reviews)
  • “Middle management is poor but are selected strategically so the top are protected from them.” (in 649 reviews)
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Monro
Monro
6 months ago
Reply to  Monro

‘Fraser told managers Citi’s flexible working was giving the bank a competitive advantage in attracting talented staff’

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Monro

You make some good points

I do worry about some people who become quite isolated through WFH but they are adults and have the right to make choices

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

They need to be Informed Choices.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Norfolk-Sceptic

Well unless there has been systematic lying, my default assumption is that choices made by adults are informed, and if they are not, then that adult has chosen to not inform themselves – a choice it is their right to make. I believe people should be allowed to go to hell their own way, provided they are not directly harming others.

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Gefion
Gefion
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

And not being paid on the way

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Rusty123
Rusty123
6 months ago
Reply to  Monro

Or alternatively get rid of the clearly lazy slackers you employ.

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kev
kev
6 months ago
Reply to  Monro

He’s the CEO, he can sack who he wants!

Just like Trump.

Like him or not (Dimon not much) he’s the boss.

Staff can vote with their feet!

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
6 months ago

WFH was just starting to come in when I dropped through the corporate trap door some years ago.

Not for me. Work is work, home is home, and ne’er the twain shall meet, although I do like to think I had the occasional corporate good idea while cutting the grass.

As for WFH with young children around, doesn’t bear thinking about. Recipe for domestic strife and home workplace disaster.

I always needed to be in the zone – and the zone for the Gruffalo and Tumbling Towers ain’t the zone for lab work, the corporate database or preparing those powerpoint decks for serial filchers higher up the corporate food chain. That’s all there was to it.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
6 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

My lot generally manage even with young kids. Shed at the bottom of the garden or a room with the door closed. Some go to the office to get away from their families. Do your work diligently, earn the freedom to choose.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
6 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It was like that in the late 50s and the 60s, when our front room was the office.

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Hester
Hester
6 months ago

Good, its about time, service is terrible in this country, employees have no care for their work, its just something they do between hair appointments, childcare, coffee and whatever they want to do during the day, but they still expect full pay.
However; I would say excluding those paid by JP Morgan and similar who will be high earners, there is little incentive to work hard when the Government takes so much in tax, then N.I. When employers no longer offer cars, privatehealth, relocations because the Government has poked their greedy fingers in once again, when a bonus means the Government steals it once again. The result these kids cannot afford a home, cannot afford to have a parent stay at home and look after a child.
The Government needs to but out of private enterprise it needs to get its greedy fingers off people’s wages, it needs to allow private enterprise to offer incentives for the best employees.
The problems of society are caused by Government, by their overreach on Lockdown, by money printing, by terrifying and taxing. Its time they got out of the way and let people like Mr Dimon get on with making a successful business.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
6 months ago
Reply to  Hester

Hear, hear 👏

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Mogwai
Mogwai
6 months ago

Off topic, terribly sad news from Germany. A woman and her 2yr old daughter have died as a result of the jihadist attack in Munich, enabled by the disgusting traitors in government;

https://news.sky.com/story/mother-and-two-year-old-daughter-die-after-car-ramming-attack-in-germany-13310195

14yr old boy killed by a Syrian in Austria today. He looks full of remorse🤬

https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1890843189608636539

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
6 months ago
Reply to  Mogwai

It happens everywhere the liberals are in Authority:
https://x.com/RadioEuropes/status/1890418853961740675

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sskinner
sskinner
6 months ago

The work from home madness has it’s roots pre Wuhan Flu Lockdowns. I recall the BBC giving airtime to an environmental activist at least a year before house arrest and this individual was demanding we all work from home to stop commuting and thereby ‘save the planet’. What is often over looked is that working from how has been a thing in IT for at least 2 decades. I have been working from home on an irregular basis since the early 2,000s. The big difference is that it suddenly became mandated along with companies suddenly being concerned about our mental well-being.

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DontPanic
DontPanic
6 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Norfolk County Council did a work from home trial in the summer before lockdown and covid. I’ve always believed lockdown was a way to get cars off the road and the Net Zero agenda underway and nothing will convince me otherwise

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CircusSpot
CircusSpot
6 months ago

In my experience it happened from the late 1990s where the bosses disappeared on Fridays and expected the underlings to cover for them.
We had a death on a building site on a Friday, no CEO contactable and a major investigation.
Years later I pick up a call for a serious incident and the boss is on answer phone. Needless to say he picked up when he heard me spell out the details.
So I do not blame the underlings leaving the bosses in the shit where they are paid to belong

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soundofreason
soundofreason
6 months ago

‘Expletive-laden outburst’?

My CEO of a few years back could have taught him a thing or three. Swore like a trooper. Very well liked though.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
6 months ago

My staff have to come to our place of business, so WFH never raises its head. I have only taken part in two ‘Zoom’ meetings, but I noticed how similar they were to real meetings, i.e. 8 people on-line, one doing the talking, essentially telling us what had already been decided. A memo, also requesting comments would have been far more productive. I suspect that there are lots of people invited to video meetings because its easy to get them online, rather than their essential contributions to the event.

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davidcraig68
davidcraig68
6 months ago

‘Expletive-laden’? Clearly the writer never worked on a Scottish building site. When I worked on a hydro-power scheme near Loch Ness the language was much more imaginative and colourful than that used by Mr Dimon

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DontPanic
DontPanic
6 months ago

Well Microsoft had to get its Teams software pushed somehow and Bill Gates appeared to push lockdown for the plandemic. Follow the money.

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Epi
Epi
6 months ago

Aren’t JP Morgan part of The Cabal that started all this sh*t in the first place?

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
6 months ago

I’m surprised it took Dimon so long to figure this out.

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Rusty123
Rusty123
6 months ago

Shame no one says that here and acts, bet 3/4 s of “uncivil” servants would be gone, its just pure idleness, and those muttering about the commute and cost, get a job nearer to home, using house prices as an excuse is crap, there are other places than Londinistan!

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Pilla
Pilla
6 months ago

Good for him! Fantastic stuff!

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marebobowl
marebobowl
6 months ago

Gee, Jamie is such a brave guy. Let’s see,he carried out all the covid mandates quite happily for four yrs ago, and now he demands his employees come back to the office…..only when Oresident Trump had the courage to call for common sense. Oh well, Jamie, at least you woke up, finally. Just wondering what is the real reason.

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Oowotwnwrwyhow
Oowotwnwrwyhow
6 months ago

When one gets a woke request or observation from an employee it’s always worth asking them if they’ve considered if they are working for the right company.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
6 months ago

Why is anybody surprised by human nature? One of the weakest traits is self-discipline. One of the most powerful traits is group think that can justify just about anything. People just are not growing up today.

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