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Exclusive: New Nursing and Midwifery Council chief apologises over failure to investigate sexual misconduct claims and admits killer nurse Lucy Letby should have been suspended much earlier – after series of exposes by The Independent

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The new chief of the UK’s crisis-hit nursing watchdog has admitted it got things “completely wrong” following a series of revelations by The Independent exposing a “toxic” culture in which rogue nurses were free to work in the NHS.