{"id":60902,"date":"2026-09-17T02:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ex-hospital-boss-dr-susan-gilby-astonished-by-staff-complacency-after-lucy-letbys-arrest\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T02:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T02:42:28","slug":"ex-hospital-boss-dr-susan-gilby-astonished-by-staff-complacency-after-lucy-letbys-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ex-hospital-boss-dr-susan-gilby-astonished-by-staff-complacency-after-lucy-letbys-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-hospital boss Dr Susan Gilby &#8216;astonished&#8217; by staff &#8216;complacency&#8217; after Lucy Letby&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gilby, who joined as medical director and deputy chief executive before later becoming chief executive, said: &#8220;There was a general feeling of complacency rather than people reeling from shock and distress, which is what I had expected to find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the narrative she encountered was that someone had been picked to blame and that the police investigation would not result in charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was astonished,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Letby, 36, is serving 15 whole-life prison terms after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others while working at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lady Justice Thirlwall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c64g7wl30wygo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">found a &#8220;complete failure to protect babies&#8221; on the neonatal unit where Letby was a nurse and described a system of &#8220;dysfunctional management and governance&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thirlwall said some of the babies Letby killed could have been saved if managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital had taken action earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Letby maintains her innocence and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is reviewing her convictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former senior managers said after the inquiry report was published on Tuesday that, with other investigations under way, it would be inappropriate to comment further. They said their thoughts remained with the families affected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cr4glvxvxdw1o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilby, who joined as medical director and deputy chief executive before later becoming chief executive, said: &#8220;There was a general feeling of complacency rather than people reeling from shock and distress, which is what I had expected to find.&#8221; She said the narrative she encountered was that someone had been picked to blame and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4496,16755,469,16756,16753,16754,16757,1764,123,4142],"class_list":["post-60902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-arrest","tag-astonished","tag-boss","tag-complacency","tag-exhospital","tag-gilby","tag-letbys","tag-lucy","tag-staff","tag-susan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60904,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60902\/revisions\/60904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}