Trish Armstrong-Child, chief executive of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was speaking after a letter was sent to all Trusts by NHS England following the trial of Lucy Letby
Blackpool’s hospital chief has pledged staff will always be listened to if they raise concerns about patient safety.
The trial of Letby, who was convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, heard concerns raised by staff there were not listened to. Ms Armstrong-Child told a meeting of the Blackpool hospital board: “Our staff always have the ability to email anonymously or give their names to it, and the weekend after the Letby trial I mentioned to a colleague to say could we give staff assurance we wouldn’t allow the protection of our reputation to get in the way if such a matter happened here.
She added: “We can never rest on our laurels, we shouldn’t just say that happened somewhere else and can’t happen here. “ She said issues which emerged from the trial highlighted “the importance of creating a culture where people feel they can speak to someone.”
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