A former NHS boss and “whistleblower” at the hospital trust where Lucy Letby worked has won a 1.4m payout after a judge ruled she was bullied out of her job.
Dr Susan Gilby became chief executive at the Countess of Chester Hospital in September 2018, two months after Letby was first arrested, the Liverpool tribunal was told.
Dr Gilby, a consultant anaesthetist, told the tribunal that despite navigating the Covid-19 pandemic and improving the running of the hospital, she encountered difficulties when Ian Haythornthwaite, a former BBC accountant, became chairman of its board in 2021.
She claimed she was “harassed and intimidated” by Mr Haythornthwaite, whom she accused of putting the financial security of the hospital before patient care.
She later “blew the whistle” as a result of her concerns about him and was suspended before she eventually resigned from her job in 2022.
Last February, an employment tribunal found she had been unfairly dismissed.
She told the BBC on Thursday she had been awarded 1.4m in damages, adding that she was relieved the case was over and it was “never about the money”.
She told the hearing that in 2022 Mr Haythornthwaite launched a “fierce verbal attack” upon her during which he “banged his hand on the table” to emphasise things he claimed were wrong with her, according to Mail Online.
She said his alleged behaviour was “bullying, pure and simple”, adding that the board was obsessed with imposing cuts at the hospital which, she felt, compromised...
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