Rónán Collins: The most sacred of trusts - What happens when healthcare staff go rogue?
In the wake of the Lucy Letby case, consultant Rónán Collins recalls his brush with a serial killer when he was a young medical registrar
In 2008, nurse Colin Norris was found guilty of killing four patients in Leeds with lethal doses of insulin. Although a 2013 case review upheld the conviction, Norris is appealing the verdict. Picture: Anna Gowthorpe/PA
The ward clinical nurse manager (formerly ‘sister’) looked aggrieved when I suggested we should send a blood test for c-peptide which, if low, can be a marker of externally given insulin, when I came across a patient with unexplained low blood glucose on our ward a number of years ago.
This was shortly after I had come back having completed my training in Leeds.
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