DID NHS FAIL TO LEARN LESSONS OF KILLER MEDICS?

Let by probe on scandals Parents to quiz hospital

- HOLLIE BONE

THE Lucy Letby inquiry will look into whether the NHS failed to learn from the crimes of serial killers Beverley Allitt and Harold Shipman.

It is to see if recommendations from the probes into those scandals were acted upon before the nurse murdered seven babies.

The Thirlwall Inquiry, which opens tomorrow, is to urge the parents of her tiny victims to share their ordeals and let them quiz hospital bosses.

Barrister Sir Robert Francis KC has been asked to examine how the NHS responded to Allitt and Shipman's sprees of killing.

Solicitor Tamlin Bolton, representing families of six Letby victims, said: "He has been asked to look back at things like Shipman, Beverley Allitt, the Mid-Staffs inquiry and consider the recommendations that followed.

"What they were, how they were meant to be implemented, whether they were implemented, and how they have changed NHS practice.