Several demonstrate precisely the same features as Mid Staffordshire, including long incubation periods during which warning signs were discounted, poor management systems, failure to respond to patient concerns, cultures of secrecy and protectionism, fragmentation of knowledge about problems and responsibility for addressing them, and cultures of denial of uncomfortable information.
Some went so far as to describe it as a photo opportunity for the western media, but simultaneously expressed concerns at the level of secrecy surrounding parts of the process.
One potentially knotty problem could be the degree of secrecy concerning nuclear weapons.
Couples today, he said, seem less concerned with that kind of secrecy and discretion.
Unlike the intelligence agencies of the United States and the former Soviet Union, those of the United Kingdom historically have preserved a high degree of secrecy concerning their organization and operations.
Widespread support for the inquiry was expressed, qualified by concern over the degree of secrecy that will surround it, and over its inability to compel former ministers to appear.
He has bumped up against technological hurdles, privacy concerns and the entrenched culture of secrecy that has flourished for decades in Washington and culminated under his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
PAGE 16 WASHINGTON SECRECY DIES HARD In trying to fullfill an ambitious pledge to make government more transparent, President Obama has bumped up against technological hurdles, privacy concerns and an entrenched culture of secrecy that flourished for decades in Washington and culminated under his predecessor, President George W. Bush.
But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with "the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets," said the 700-page report, prepared by a group appointed by the Irish government and called the Commission of Investigation Into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
When Senator Michael Lee (R, Utah) said he was concerned about the "general veil of secrecy under which the Federal Reserve typically operates," Bernanke replied: "That's an urban legend".
