His determination to bring down the consultants meant he “lost objectivity and made poor decisions”, Thirlwall concluded.<\/p>\n
She also described it as a “gross misjudgement” when he told Letby: “Lucy, we’ve got your back” after a grievance she had raised was upheld.<\/p>\n
The inquiry found his “failure” to take “any responsibility for the delays and the heartache caused to the families” was “indefensible”.<\/p>\n
When Chambers resigned in September 2018, he collaborated with trust chair Sir Duncan Nichol on a resignation statement which Thirlwall described as “pure spin”.<\/p>\n
It said his departure was “not a judgement on his ability” but “a reflection of his integrity”.<\/p>\n
Thirlwall concluded he was in fact resigning to avoid a vote of no confidence.<\/p>\n
Chambers later secured senior roles at other NHS trusts, despite what Thirlwall described as “no consideration of whether Chambers was a fit and proper person for the role he was taking on”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His determination to bring down the consultants meant he “lost objectivity and made poor decisions”, Thirlwall concluded. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}