Interview With Viv Blondek On Lucy Letby

Viv Blondek, a retired Countess of Chester nurse with twenty-two years in the coronary care unit and former Unison branch secretary, provides an insider's account of the hospital culture that surrounded the Letby case. As co-founder of 19Nurses, a group of current and former NHS nurses raising concerns about the conviction, she describes a workforce too frightened to speak out, underfunded neonatal services, and management structures that consistently blamed frontline nurses for systemic problems. Blondek details the union's involvement in supporting Lucy and raises specific concerns from attending the retrial of Baby K, including errors in the swipe card data for nine infants and the consultants' consistent failure to follow their own stated policies. She notes that Lucy's grievance against the seven consultants was upheld in full and that the consultants were required to apologise, information the jury never heard.