Doctors, not cameras, save babies in intensive care | Brief letters

Lucy Letby case | At one’s peak | Leaving the debate | Cut from the same cloth | End of the odyssey | A word’s worth

Re the Thirlwall report on the Lucy Letby case ( Thirlwall report: what did it say about Lucy Letby case and what does it recommend?, 15 September ), babies in neonatal intensive care units are saved by having consultant neonatologists (ie paediatricians who have undergone subspecialist training in neonatal medicine) doing rounds twice daily (in addition to being immediately available), trained neonatal nurses and appropriately resourced units – not by installing cameras on cots and insulin fridges. Dr Chris Fitzpatrick Retired consultant obstetrician ; former CEO of Coombe hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Following the introduction of a competitive element in the nominative determinism debate ( Letters, 15 September ), I’d like to advise everyone that I am at my peak. Steve Munro St Osyth, Essex

I have found the nominative determinism letters interesting and amusing, but feel that they have gone on long enough. I have decided to leave the debate. Martin R Igoe Sheffield

All these letters are cut from the same cloth. Proctor Taylor Heathfield, East Sussex

The nominative determinism debate has been quite a journey, but is it time to end this odyssey? Richard Homer St Albans

When I wrote in at the end of August , I hadn’t realised what a flurry of correspondence it would provoke, but it does demonstrate what a single word’s worth. Alan Wordsworth Cheltenham, Gloucestershire