One thing the Letby trial left me wondering was how do doctors and nurses working in areas with higher levels of mortality protect themselves from this sort of accusation? And whether this would put doctors off doing riskier procedures?
The suspicious deaths in this case were systematically ignored by hospital management. Doctors who raised concerns about Letby were disciplined for doing so. The hospital is now under police investigation on suspicion of corporate manslaughter, because it is highly likely that deaths could have been prevented if they had investigated rather than silenced those concerns.