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J Med Ethics
June 2024
Rehabilitation Medicine, NHS Lothian, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
How could we better use public inquiries to stem the recurrence of healthcare failures? The question seems ever relevant, prompted this time by the inquiry into how former nurse Letby was able to murder newborns under National Health Service care. While criminality, like Letby's, can be readily condemned, other factors like poor leadership and culture seem more often regretted than reformed. I would argue this is where inquiries struggle, in the space between ethics and law-with what is awful but lawful.
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