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Michele Worden Interview Lucy Letby & Countess Of Chester

A lengthy interview between the host and Michelle Worden, an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner who previously worked at the Countess of Chester. Worden provides biographical context about neonatal nursing training and practice, explains the complexity of neonatal intensive care, and discusses the specific staffing problems at the hospital including the replacement of registered nurses with nursery nurses and the dilution of the medical rota following changes to junior doctor training. She describes how caring nursing behaviours—bereavement cards, memory boxes, supporting parents—were weaponised against Letby in the trial. Worden also recounts contacting Cheshire Police in 2018 with information about the RCPCH report and being dismissed, and later emailing Ben Myers without receiving a substantive response.

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Michelle Worden

They have been weaponised against not just Lucy, but about nursing. So they talk about, oh, Lucy sent a bereavement card. I sent lots of bereavement cards. I've attended, tragically, babies' funerals more than I care to remember.
Topic: On normal nursing behaviour being used as evidence against Letby

Michelle Worden

Lucy thought she had a good working relationship with the consultants on this unit, but behind the scenes, they were pointing the finger at her. They didn't have the guts to go up to her and say to her face, oh, we think you've done this wrong.
Topic: On consultant behaviour towards Letby

Michelle Worden

Neonatology has moved on in quantum leaps in the last 20 years. And even since I worked on the unit, and Dowie Evans wasn't on that unit all the time. As a consultant paediatrician, he would have been covering the paediatric ward.
Topic: On Dewi Evans's lack of neonatal expertise

Michelle Worden

In court, somebody presented him with what's called an oxygen saturation monitor, and he didn't know what it was. Now, Dewey Evans is a consultant paediatrician. He was not in a level three unit. I don't know if he'd actually ever worked in a level three unit.
Topic: On Evans failing to recognise basic neonatal equipment in court
neonatal nursing expertise
staffing failures
normal nursing behaviour
Dewi Evans qualifications
hospital culture

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