Unless stated otherwise, all those listed below worked at the Countess of Chester Hospital at the relevant time.
|
Witness |
Title |
Date of oral evidence |
|---|---|---|
|
Dee Appleton-Cairns |
Deputy Director of People and Organisational Development |
05/11/2024 |
|
Dr Cassandra Barrett |
Junior doctor (paediatric specialty trainee) |
02/10/2024 |
|
Sir Rob Behrens CBE |
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman |
10/12/2024 |
|
Dr Rosie Benneyworth |
Interim Chief Executive, Health Services Safety Investigations Body |
08/01/2025 |
|
Kate Bissell |
Neonatal nurse (band 6) |
10/10/2024 |
|
Professor John Bowers KC |
Expert witness to the Inquiry |
05/12/2024 |
|
Dr Shirley Bowles |
Consultant chemical pathologist |
09/10/2024 |
|
Dr Stephen Brearey |
Consultant paediatrician and Clinical Lead, neonatal unit |
19/11/2024 |
|
Louis Browne KC |
Legal adviser (barrister) to the Countess of Chester Hospital |
04/12/2024 |
|
Tracy Bullock |
Chief Executive, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust |
09/01/2025 |
|
Lorraine Burnett |
Director of Operations |
05/11/2024 |
|
Helen Cain |
Acute Hospitals Inspector, Care Quality Commission |
14/11/2024 |
|
Tony Chambers |
Chief Executive (December 2012 to September 2018) |
27/11/2024 |
|
Elizabeth Childs |
Specialist adviser for Care Quality Commission and Inspection Chair |
14/11/2024 |
|
Dr Alan Clamp |
Chief Executive, Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care |
07/01/2025 |
|
Hayley Cooper (Griffiths) |
Royal College of Nursing representative |
06/11/2024 |
|
Kathryn De Beger |
Occupational Health Manager |
09/10/2024 |
|
Professor Mary Dixon-Woods |
Expert witness to the Inquiry |
26/09/2024 |
|
Sharon Dodd |
Paediatric Liaison and Child Death Overview Panel Nurse Representative, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
18/11/2024 |
|
Helené Donnelly OBE |
Ambassador for Cultural Change and Lead Freedom to Speak Up Guardian for the Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Trust |
04/12/2024 |
|
Dr U |
Paediatric registrar |
07/10/2024 |
|
Dr V |
Consultant paediatrician |
07/10/2024 |
|
Dr ZA |
Consultant paediatrician |
07/10/2024 |
|
Chris Dzikiti |
Interim Chief Inspector of Healthcare, Care Quality Commission – corporate witness |
14/01/2025 |
|
Sue Eardley |
Head of Invited Reviews, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
07/11/2024 |
|
Ros Fallon |
Non-Executive Director |
03/12/2024 |
|
Yvonne Farmer |
Neonatal practice development nurse (band 7), neonatal nurse (band 6) |
16/10/2024 |
|
Father L and M (read in) |
24/09/2024 | |
|
Dr Alan Fletcher |
National Medical Examiner for England and Wales |
12/12/2024 |
|
Julie Fogarty |
Head of Midwifery |
15/10/2024 |
|
Ann Ford |
Head of Hospitals Inspections, Care Quality Commission |
15/11/2024 |
|
Hayley Frame |
Independent Chair, Pan Cheshire Child Death Overview Panel |
18/11/2024 |
|
Sir Robert Francis KC |
Expert witness to the Inquiry |
30/09/2024 |
|
Dr Joanna Garstang |
Clinical Associate Professor of Child Protection, School of Nursing, University of Birmingham – overview witness on safeguarding and child death processes |
26/09/2024 |
|
Dr John Gibbs |
Consultant paediatrician |
01/10/2024 |
|
Dr Susan Gilby |
Acting Chief Executive (September 2018 to April 2019), Chief Executive (April 2019 to December 2022) |
24/02/2025 |
|
Dr Christopher Green |
Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management |
06/11/2024 |
|
Yvonne Griffiths |
Deputy Manager, neonatal unit |
16/10/2024 |
|
Ian Harvey |
Medical Director |
28/11/2024 and 29/11/2024 |
|
Dr Jane Hawdon |
Consultant neonatologist, Barts Health NHS Trust |
12/11/2024 |
|
Helen Herniman |
Acting Chief Executive and Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council – corporate witness |
08/01/2025 |
|
Andrew Higgins |
Non-Executive Director |
03/12/2024 |
|
Sue Hodkinson |
Director of People and Organisational Development |
26/11/2024 |
|
Simon Holden |
Chief Financial Officer |
03/12/2024 |
|
Dr Susie Holt |
Consultant paediatrician |
03/10/2024 |
|
Rachel Hopwood |
Non-Executive Director |
03/12/2024 |
|
Ashleigh Hudson |
Neonatal nurse (band 5) |
10/10/2024 |
|
Julie Hughes |
Inspector, Care Quality Commission |
15/11/2024 |
|
Rt Hon. Jeremy Hunt MP |
Secretary of State for Health |
09/01/2025 |
|
Dr Howyada Isaac |
Named Doctor for Safeguarding |
18/11/2024 |
|
Dr Paul Jameson |
Chair, Medical Staff Committee |
08/10/2024 |
|
Ken Jarrold CBE |
Health service manager and Chair of Working Group that produced Code of Conduct for NHS Managers |
07/01/2025 |
|
Dr Ravi Jayaram |
Consultant paediatrician, Lead Clinician for Children’s Services |
13/11/2024 |
|
Tom Kark KC |
Barrister and author of the Kark Review |
17/01/2025 |
|
Alison Kelly |
Director of Nursing and Quality, Executive Lead for Safeguarding |
25/11/2024 |
|
Dr Camilla Kingdon |
Former President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – corporate witness |
12/12/2024 |
|
Professor Marian Knight MBE |
Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health and Lead, National Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity, MBRRACE-UK |
07/01/2025 |
|
Dr Rachel Lambie |
Paediatric and neonatal registrar |
02/10/2024 |
|
Annemarie Lawrence |
Risk midwife (band 7) |
22/10/2024 |
|
Nicola Lightfoot |
Deputy Manager, children’s ward |
15/10/2024 |
|
Stuart Lythgoe |
Director of Operations for the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association |
05/12/2024 |
|
Alexandra Mancini |
Reviewer for Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Invited Review |
11/11/2024 |
|
Patricia Marquis |
Director for England, Royal College of Nursing – corporate witness |
13/01/2025 |
|
Elizabeth Marshall |
Neonatal assistant (band 4) |
10/10/2024 |
|
Dr Huw Mayberry |
Paediatric registrar |
02/10/2024 |
|
Dr Jim McCormack |
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist |
08/10/2024 |
|
Anne McGlade (née Martyn) |
Manager, children’s ward |
16/10/2024 |
|
Dr Michael McGuigan |
Consultant paediatrician |
08/10/2024 |
|
Claire McLaughlan |
Reviewer, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
11/11/2024 |
|
Janet McMahon |
Project Lead, then Patient Experience Lead, then Risk and Patient Safety Lead, Women and Children’s Division |
22/10/2024 |
|
Dr Jo McPartland |
Consultant paediatric pathologist, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust |
12/11/2024 |
|
Simon Medland KC |
Barrister |
21/11/2024 |
|
General Sir Gordon Messenger |
Co-author of Leadership for a Collaborative and Inclusive Future (the Messenger/Pollard report) |
08/01/2025 |
|
Dr Anna Milan |
Principal Clinical Scientist, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
09/10/2024 |
|
Ruth Millward |
Head of Risk and Patient Safety |
04/11/2024 |
|
Dr Rajiv Mittal |
Consultant paediatrician and Designated Doctor for Safeguarding and Child Deaths, Integrated Care Board |
20/11/2024 |
|
Alan Moore |
Assistant Coroner, then Senior Coroner for Cheshire |
04/12/2024 |
|
Mother A and B |
16/09/2024 | |
|
Mother and Father G (read in) |
18/09/2024 | |
|
Mother and Father J |
23/09/2024 | |
|
Mother and Father K |
23/09/2024 | |
|
Mother and Father N (read in) |
24/09/2024 | |
|
Mother and Father O, P and R (read in) |
25/09/2024 | |
|
Mother C |
16/09/2024 | |
|
Mother D |
17/09/2024 | |
|
Mother E and F |
18/09/2024 | |
|
Mother H |
19/09/2024 | |
|
Mother I (read in) |
17/09/2024 | |
|
Anne Murphy |
Lead Nurse for Children’s Services |
21/10/2024 |
|
Fiona Murphy MBE |
Corporate Director of Nursing, Northern Care Alliance for End-of-Life Care and Bereavement |
14/01/2025 |
|
Dr Matthew Neame |
Paediatric registrar |
02/10/2024 |
|
Dr Elizabeth Newby |
Consultant paediatrician |
03/10/2024 |
|
Tony Newman |
Regulation Adviser, Employer Link Service, Nursing and Midwifery Council |
12/12/2024 |
|
Sir Duncan Nichol CBE |
Chair of the Board |
02/12/2024 |
|
Nurse T |
Neonatal nurse (band 6) |
14/10/2024 |
|
Nurse W |
Neonatal nurse (band 6) |
14/10/2024 |
|
Nurse ZC |
Children’s nurse (band 5) |
14/10/2024 |
|
Dr Benjamin Odeka |
Specialist adviser for Care Quality Commission |
14/11/2024 |
|
Ed Oliver |
Non-Executive Director |
03/12/2024 |
|
Ian Pace |
Legal adviser (solicitor) to the Countess of Chester Hospital and Associate, Employment and Pensions, DAC Beachcroft |
21/11/2024 |
|
Debbie Peacock |
Risk and Patient Safety Lead, Women and Children’s Division |
22/10/2024 |
|
Kathryn Percival-Calderbank |
Senior neonatal practitioner (band 6) |
10/10/2024 |
|
Mary Potter |
Specialist adviser for Care Quality Commission |
14/11/2024 |
|
Eirian Powell |
Manager, neonatal unit |
17/10/2024 |
|
Professor Sir Stephen Powis |
National Medical Director, NHS England – corporate witness |
17/01/2025 |
|
Dr Oliver Rackham |
Consultant paediatrician and consultant on the neonatal transport team |
26/11/2024 |
|
Sybille Raphael |
Director, Protect |
05/12/2024 |
|
Karen Rees (Moore) |
Head of Nursing, later Associate Director of Nursing, Urgent Care Division |
21/10/2024 |
|
Nicholas Rheinberg |
Senior Coroner for Cheshire |
06/12/2024 |
|
Dr Murthy Saladi |
Consultant paediatrician |
03/10/2024 |
|
Lucy Sementa |
Human Resources specialist |
06/11/2024 |
|
Dr David Shortland |
Clinical Lead, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Invited Review Programme |
11/11/2024 |
|
Lyn Simpson |
Executive Regional Managing Director (North), NHS Improvement |
21/11/2024 |
|
Paula Sindall (née Lewis) |
Specialist safeguarding children’s nurse |
18/11/2024 |
|
Corinne Slingo |
Legal adviser (solicitor) to the Countess of Chester Hospital and Head of Healthcare Regulatory, DAC Beachcroft |
21/11/2024 |
|
Professor Judith Smith |
Professor of Health Policy and Management, the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham |
09/01/2025 |
|
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter OBE |
Expert witness to the Inquiry |
15/01/2025 |
|
Dr Nim Subhedar |
Consultant neonatologist, Clinical Lead, Cheshire and Merseyside Neonatal Network |
20/11/2024 |
|
Melanie Taylor |
Neonatal nurse (band 6) |
10/10/2024 |
|
Dr Sean Tighe |
Chair, British Medical Association Local Negotiating Committee |
08/10/2024 |
|
Jane Tomkinson OBE |
Acting Chief Executive (December 2022 to February 2024), Chief Executive (from February 2024) |
13/01/2025 |
|
Karen Townsend |
Divisional Director, Urgent Care |
04/11/2024 |
|
Professor Stephen Turner |
Current President, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health – corporate witness |
12/12/2024 |
|
William Vineall |
Director, NHS Quality, Safety and Investigations, Department of Health and Social Care – corporate witness |
15/01/2025 |
|
Annette Weatherley |
Deputy Chief Nurse, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Independent Chair of Grievance Panel |
07/11/2024 |
|
Detective Chief Superintendent Nigel Wenham |
Deputy Head, Public Protection Directorate, Cheshire Constabulary |
20/11/2024 |
|
James Wilkie |
Non-Executive Director |
02/12/2024 |
|
Sian Williams |
Deputy Director of Nursing |
05/11/2024 |
|
Dr Nicholas Wilson |
Reviewer, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
11/11/2024 |