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 ...