The former chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital claims he acted “immediately” as soon as he became aware of “serious concerns” about Lucy Letby’s speech in June 2016, a year after the nurse was linked to the suspicious deaths of seven babies. Tony Chambers made the announcement at a time when the former head of the British National Health Service (NHS) in the Chester area says he was “fooled” by hospital managers. Sir Duncan Nichol, then chairman of the board of directors of the NHS where Letby worked, says that after two investigations in 2016, the hospital assured him that “there was no criminal activity that could be traced back to anyone” in Countess Chester However, the investigation did not alleviate the hospital’s doctors’ concerns about Nurse Letby’s suspicious behavior. Chambers, for his part, shrugged off responsibility. He says that before leaving the hospital shortly after Letby’s arrest in 2018, he was told she was “an enthusiastic, capable and dedicated nurse.” Letby, we recall, was removed from the neonatal department, where she worked since 2012, only in July 2016, when she had already killed seven babies and tried to kill at least six more.