This is an important story if you want to understand problems at the CCRC. In 2010, the av workload for a case review manager was 12.5 - now they’re juggling more than double with one having as many as 45 cases. Excellent work from Charles Thomson.

Not sure what is more worrying - a male born NHS doctor insisting they are “biologically female” or someone with that much medical training genuinely believing that sex has “no defined or agreed meaning in science”

After the Bristol Inquiry reported on dozens of avoidable baby deaths after heart surgery in 2001, I supported the idea of an NHS crash investigation team, coupled with a government commitment to provide the resources to fix the problems they unearthed. Had such an expert team gone into the Countess of Chester hospital shortly after the unexpected deaths started happening, my belief is that the clear problems with substandard care would have been identified and addressed nearly 10 years ago and the unit would either have been safely staffed or downgraded. I agree with the international expert panel that there is no medical evidence of murder, I just wish they could have reached their conclusions many years ago. The eye watering sums of public money we have spent on a trial and a public inquiry, and all the legal ramifications, could instead have gone on NHS staffing, and a huge amount of anger, anguish and harm could’ve been prevented. I think this is probably a colossal failure at every single level - medical, legal and political. And the media hasn’t covered itself in glory either. This has all the hallmarks of another entirely avoidable NHS tragedy.

I believed Lucy Letby was guilty. Until now. A 14 member expert pane decimated the entire prosecution case. Incompetence killed those babies. A young woman is in jail because Doctors with a God complex refused to acknowledge their own medical failings & scapegoated a young nurse.

Over 200 questions so far. Please do keep sending over ahead of us recording tomorrow morning !!

Good. Me, early Sept 2024, Telegraph "My view is... the conviction [is] unsafe...I am effectively certain this was not a fair trial."

You are correct. However, I sense that most of the LL supportive media are guilty of being dismissive of those who came before them. There were a small number of scientists who either before the trial or in its early stages concluded, on the basis of a scientific appraisal of information/documents in the public domain, that it was deeply flawed. Dismissing them is insulting, hypocritical and, most importantly, risks letting the CPS off the hook. It could claim that it was not possible to see the flaws in the trial until now, that they were victims too. This is the classic "just doin' my job guv" prison guard defence. It must not be allowed to happen. It is clear that the CPS was hugely culpable/complicit. #LucyLetby