Role in the case
Dr Lambie was part of the clinical team responding to the 2015-2016 cluster. Her Thirlwall evidence addresses the clinical presentations of individual deterioration events, the unit’s response protocols, and the internal-review process. Her evidence contributes to the documentary picture of how the consultant team identified the cluster as requiring external escalation.
The consultant team context
The Countess of Chester consultant body during the indictment period comprised a small group of paediatricians rotating cover on the neonatal unit alongside their general paediatric duties. The team’s identification of the cluster as anomalous was the trigger for the escalation chain; the executive-team delay in acting on that escalation is the institutional-failure story at the centre of the Thirlwall Inquiry.
Read alongside
- Transcript: Dr Lambie Thirlwall evidence
- Dr Stephen Brearey
- Dr Ravi Jayaram
- Dr John Gibbs
- Dr Elizabeth Newby
- Analysis: doctor-nurse power dynamics
Source
Thirlwall Inquiry evidence bundles; Countess of Chester Trust records; Chester Standard contemporaneous coverage.