IF ever a scandal demanded a full statutory public inquiry it’s the murder of seven babies by a serial killer nurse and her managers’ failure to stop her.
Too often such probes are a PR exercise, a bonanza for lawyers, absurdly expensive, protracted and invariably concluding with insincere platitudes about “lessons being learned”.
The Lucy Letby case is different.
This inquiry would not need to bog itself down in the performance of the wider NHS’s bloated clipboard class.
Another time, maybe. It can instead focus solely on that one hospital unit in the short period between 2015 and mid-2017 when police were finally called in.