Accountability in health services - Who benefits from secrecy?

THE State and its agents have built an impenetrable wall of silence around itself and its at-arms-length employees and their occasional failings.

Any government department or agency shrugs off legitimate questions about failure in the public sphere, and the consequences faced by the individuals involved or the cost of sanctions or settlements made out of the public purse, with the Teflon dismissal: “We don’t comment on individual cases.”

Game, set, and match to the bureaucrats and the medical establishment.