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Dr John Gibbs was one of the longest-serving consultant paediatricians at the Countess of Chester and a co-signatory of the September 2016 joint consultants' letter. His Thirlwall Inquiry evidence addresses the series of internal reviews conducted from late 2015 through 2016, the thematic meetings that identified Letby as the common factor, and the consultants' collective frustration at the executive response.
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Dr John Gibbs, consultant paediatrician, was one of the longest-serving senior clinicians on the Countess of Chester neonatal unit during the cluster period. He co-signed the September 2016 joint letter demanding police involvement and gave extensive Thirlwall Inquiry evidence on the sequence of internal reviews that ran from late 2015 through late 2016.