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Interview With Dr. Martyn Pitman On Lucy Letby News

Dr Martyn Pitman discusses David Davis MP's speech in Parliament raising concerns about the Lucy Letby conviction, and examines Chief Constable Roberts's response, which Pitman and the host argue was evasive and legally inaccurate. The employment grievance procedure is given extended treatment: Pitman argues that a Band 5 nurse winning a formal grievance against senior consultants is virtually without precedent in the NHS and that this outcome directly contradicts the narrative of a nurse acting alone out of personal malice. The host presents a Trust legal memorandum discussing potential liability for constructive dismissal, and notes that the Countess of Chester Hospital refused to participate in mediation, raising questions about what they were seeking to avoid disclosing. Pitman argues that the grievance win is one of the strongest pieces of exculpatory context in the entire case.

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Dr Martyn Pitman

A Band 5 nurse winning a formal grievance against senior consultants — in my twenty-plus years in the NHS I cannot recall that happening. It tells you that the institution's own process found her complaint had merit.
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Dr Martyn Pitman

The hospital refused mediation. When an institution refuses to mediate in an employment dispute, you have to ask what they are afraid of having disclosed in that process.
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David Davis stood up in Parliament and said what many experts have been saying for months. The Chief Constable's response was to attack the messenger rather than engage with the substance.
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