The article says Valerie suffered blood loss after death, and it may not have been visible before due to clotting. It also says she showed no clinical signs blood loss- you’d expect BP, pulse etc to be affected.
the police were also called in “later that month” to investigate neglect and issues in the ward. That investigation then lead to Valerie. The body won’t have been forensically preserved initially. By the time the investigation was opened any evidence will have been long gone. So I don’t think we can blame the police and cps here.
to me this is a repeat of Lucy Letby. A failing ward, lack of proper care, fundamental infrastructure and staffing problems which led to deaths- including murder which is just horrific.
the investigation now needs to focus on how this was allowed to happen, and what the nhs needs to do to stop this ever happening again.
i worked in the nhs. Most cost saving measures are done by reducing staff. So not only are wards understaffed the staff are burned out. They simply can’t do any more, so again I think blaming staff is not the right path. They need to stop throwing money at new IT systems and SLT and seriously up the basic staffing levels.