Letter

Rooting out NHS secrecy

Dear healthmatters— I have looked through my file of back issues of healthmatters and see, with one exception (Barry Clifton) there has been no contribution from the NHS since 1991. Harry Keen in issue 10 refers to NHS secrecy. To my mind there is a great need for a follow up or else some of your readers might start down the road of thinking that no news is good news.

I see a considerable difficulty nowadays if anyone wishes to secure real hard facts about NHS performance. Regualr readers would, in my view, be in a better position to judge the quality of your writing and its value if there were regular articles from people who wrote from positions of seeming authority.

I realise, in a practical world and with your budget, there are severe limitations, but when the NHS itself is surely the most important health topic there is a need to give it that place in healthmatters. If not then the magazine will be increasingly perceived as having ‘lost its way’.