Group including neonatal experts and statistics professors question its setup amid concerns about conviction
A group including some of the UK’s leading neonatal experts and professors of statistics is calling on the government to postpone or change the terms of a public inquiry over concerns about the conviction of the neonatal nurse
The other signatories are voicing their concerns formally for the first time. They include Dr Tariq Ali, the former head of the paediatric critical care unit at Oxford university hospitals, and Philip Dawid, an emeritus professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge. Taking issue with one strand of the Thirlwall inquiry, which relates directly to Letby, they said the natural assumption following the convictions – that she was a murderer – may lead to “a failure in understanding and examining alternative, potentially complex causes for the deaths, thus missing important lessons. Possible negligent deaths that were presumed to be murders could result in an incomplete investigation of the management response to the crisis”.
The lead signatories of the letter are Dr Svilena Dimitrova, a specialist neonatal adviser to the Care Quality Commission and member of the independentinto mother and baby deaths at Nottingham university hospitals, and Peter Elston, a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, who questioned the analysis of shift data on which the prosecution depended before the trial began in October 2022.
The letter says there were a further seven neonatal and paediatric consultants, two advanced neonatal nurse practitioners, and two neonatal nurses who shared their concerns but wished to remain anonymous over fears of repercussions.
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