Countess of Chester receives urgent warning notice over ‘visibly dirty equipment’ and routine corridor care
Emergency care at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked is falling far short of legal standards, the healthcare watchdog has found, with routine corridor care and “critical gaps” in sepsis treatment.
The Countess of Chester hospital, in north-west England, was issued with an urgent warning notice after inspectors found “repeated breaches” of regulations in its emergency care unit.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated the A&E as “inadequate” and the overall service as “requires improvement”.
Letby, who worked on the Countess’s neonatal unit, is serving 15 whole-life prison terms after being convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill another seven between June 2015 and June 2016.
