“Secretary of State, we are entering a new world, in which innovation and technology will bring exciting change. There is potential to do so much good, but we must ensure the risks of increasingly complex healthcare are understood and where the system is not sure of the risks it must say so. Had it done so in the case of our three interventions, (
#mesh #primodos #sodiumvalproate) I have no doubt that much anguish, suffering and many ruined lives could have been avoided.
My team and I are clear that our recommendations will improve the lives of people who have been harmed and make the system safer in the future. Implementation needs to be approached with a new urgency and determination, founded on the guiding principle that our healthcare system must first do no harm.”
Yours sincerely,
Julia Cumberlege
Sadly the ‘urgency’ and ‘determination’ is 5 years late and not visible to the avoidably harmed
@DHSCgovuk
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