You may have missed this morning's news (here) that Andrew Lansley has failed in his court appeal to the Information Tribunal to prevent the publication of the NHS Risk Register. The Tribunal upheld the November decision by the Information Commissioner which called on the government to release the full Risk Register in the public interest. The Department of Health have vowed not to act until they receive the full ruling from the Tribunal, but that could take weeks, and the bill will already be law by the 20 March. Labour MP, and former Shadow Health Secretary John Healey responded by saying that the government 'should respect the law' but instead are stonewalling until the bill passes parliament.
The Risk Register contains harrowing warnings about the cost and safety of patients under the new NHS reforms by the Tories which proposes to hand 49% of our NHS bed & theatre time over to private profiteers. ...read more
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com/2012/03/lansley-refuses-court-order-to-publish.html
