She was released on bail soon afterwards and would not be charged until November 2020, but shortly after her initial arrest – in September 2018 – Mr Chambers stepped down.
Sir Duncan Nichol, the Countess of Chester’s chairman, said the decision was not linked to the probe into Letby.
Since then, Mr Chambers has held directorships at a series of other NHS Trusts – commuting home to Lancashire at the weekends.
He was appointed interim chief executive at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in December 2019, on a salary of more than £210,000 a year, before moving to the same position at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust in August 2021.
In early 2022, he became a director at Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, in charge of opening a new hospital.
He took the helm of Queen Victoria NHS Foundation Trust in February, again as interim chief executive, and stepped down in June, when a permanent replacement was found.
Mr Chamber told The Telegraph that the “best place for such issues to be examined would be an inquiry that would have the ability to establish the truth”.
Mr Chambers said that the information given to The Telegraph in 2017 was “accurate” and “reflected where we were…with the RCPCH review and the subsequent clinical and secondary note reviews”.
