Our letter to the Health Services Journal (HSJ) was published last week (11th March, hard-copy version), albeit in mangled form.  It made the argument we have blogged about on here, that the report fails almost entirely to deal with an essential issue at the heart of what happened at Mid-Staffordshire, the breakdown in trust in local services.  Instead it focusses on increasing bureacratic, professioanal and regulatory measures which simply fall within the existing mindset.

Click here to see the Blog (1st March 2010).