Many 100s of people.
Start here for some interesting background
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/andrew-lansley-covers-up-nhs-repor
t.html
Less interesting but official comment
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18017197
Sandra
-----Original Message-----
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Walter
Sent: 14 May 2012 14:44
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ministerial veto on releasing the Risk Register for the Health
and Social Care Bill
How many of us apart from me actually asked it under FOI?
Sent from my mobile
On 9 May 2012, at 12:14, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> This article from Pulse has a response from Andrea Franks, Consultant,
> with a lot of useful contacts if you want to raise the matter with the
> ICO
>
> The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham will be submitting a
> report to Parliament next week in the light of the Cabinet veto of
> publication of the NHS Risk Register.
>
> Or the Justice Committee
>
> The House of Commons Justice Committee is conducting an inquiry into
> the operation of the Freedom of Information Act and will be taking
> evidence from the Department of Health officials on Tuesday 15 May.
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/cvlyxw5
>
> The really worrying thing is that the reasoning behind the Ministerial
> decision to veto publication of this risk register -
>
> "Mr Lansley claimed the move was necessary in order to protect the
> 'safe space where officials are able to give Ministers full and frank
> advice in developing policies and programmes'."
>
> Surely applies to all risk registers and other advice given by the
> civil service to ministers on any topic whatsoever.
> If this *is* their attitude, what price transparency and the rule of
> inconvenient law - such as FOI?
>
> Mary Hawking
> "thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to
> cats: we can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4.
> don't forget patients like Fred!
> http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/whats-holding-fred-b
> ack/
>
>
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