No more stories like this one?
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ has just the impact of lengthy delays at the professional body which hears complaints about alleged misconduct by nurses.
The revelations stem from documents obtained under freedom of information from the Nursing and Midwifery Council by my colleague Nicola Beckford.
According to , 'the public is not being protected from those individuals who, but for the delay, would be removed from the register or subject to some other sanction'.
warned that future cases could wait over three years to be heard.
An interesting - and important - question is whether these documents would have been released if the government's to restrict FOI were already in force. One can't be sure, but it is entirely possible that if these proposed restrictions on FOI were in force, then the NMC could have refused to release these documents. It could well have argued that the time taken to consider and consult on their disclosure could have exceeded the limit.
So this is exactly the kind of story which is solidly in the public interest but may not be brought to public attention if the government persists with implementing its proposed restrictions.
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FOI.
Does this mean we are Free to keep Our Information and not Forced Over Immegration (i.e. Anti Terrorism) to hand over on demand our private information?
Maybe our "For Our Iyes" Labour governement should be a little more free and open themselves.