SBP comment: Patients badly served by government U-turn

All too often there has been a restrictive approach to the open disclosure of information to patients and their families by the health services.

Ireland is not alone in this.

England was rocked by a major scandal involving substandard care to patients in Mid Staffordshire in 2013. The two hospitals involved were devoid of a culture of openness and transparency.

Hundreds of hospital patients died needlessly as a result of substandard care and ...