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I suspect they would just say they aren't interested in past problems with GET because NICE no longer recommends it.
True, but if patients could provide evidence, if it exists, that clinics aren't following the guidelines then there might be value in that.
" Our investigations do not find blame or liability with individuals or organisations. Information shared with us is confidential and protected by law." this is the whole problem why health services fail again and again. no one suffers the consequence for causing harms or deaths .then everything goes on in one big circle lessons are never taken on board if their are no consequences for the people who fail us.
I think this is trying to address some of the issues with the NHS at a wider level . From recent " scandals", it's clear that there is so much of a blame game culture that whistleblowing is a very risky business, with the result that bad practice exists for longer than it should and more harm is caused . Jeremy Hunt when health secretary was looking at how other countries dealt with this . I think it was Sweden that had a no blame system focussed on learning from mistakes ; I don't know how that system works and whether accountability is part of it . Transparency matters too however , so how does public know re necessary changes proposed and instigated ? You only have to look at the mess that is the contaminated blood scandal - still rumbling on from the 80s , no doubt exacerbated by our blame culture , to appreciate the impact such a system could have. Squaring accountability may be the difficult aspect , but I do wonder if this had been in existence previously if GET would have been withdrawn faster as there are so many affected people whose voices could have been afforded a mechanism to flag up its effects. The fly in the ointment, as ever, is the political aspect .
