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It's heartbreaking the potential damage of reputation to nurses
Which would be tragic, because this was mostly a management failure and it's not as if we haven't had serial killing doctors. Ironically, one possible motivation cited for the management resistance to the whistleblowing doctors was that they (the management) mostly had careers connected to nursing and instinctively distrusted doctors making accusations about a nurse. Toxic culture all round.
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In many industries is normal to believe there will be a procedure for hearing and effectively dealing with reports and complaints and you wouldn't naturally go to the police.
Hospitals are strange places though, many friends and family work all over the Uk, some trusts are reasonably good at dealing with issues (not talking about the magnitude of the cases in question) and others are incredibly bad where the only logical course of action is for the complainent to just leave and move to another job, whilst the person in the wrong just carries on.
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There have been a number of incidents around midwifery and an RCN survey in 2009 described in one unit as having a "gang culture" of bullying/hazing to see if you were tough enough, and don't get started on midwives vs junior doctors.
Add in decades old rivalries between CEOs of neighbouring Trusts, desperation all around to not be an outlier amongst your peers on any performance measure lest NHS England send in a team etc. etc.
It's heartbreaking the potential damage of reputation to nurses; in addition to the horrendous damage to the victims and families. What she's done is unfathomable.
I hope we can all just forget she ever existed and remove any oxygen from her name though there are clearly some significant learnings from the inquiry as to how she wasn't caught sooner.