He also accused ministers of recently backtracking on a pledge to require hospitals to always tell a patient or relatives when a blunder occurs, which could let mistakes be covered up.
Hunt, in a Commons statement on the findings, said: "There is no greater pain than for a parent to lose a child – and to do so knowing it was because of mistakes that we now know were covered up makes the agony even worse.
"We had one mistake in the second half by letting them through, thankfully we were covered.
Mistakes will be covered," says Karanth.
In January 2013, a whistleblower, Olivia Butler, who was working as interim head of children's social care at the time of the murder, told BBC London mistakes had been covered up.
And: "If he makes mistakes, they must be covered.
For substantive errors, including mistakes in who is covered and what's paid in or out, the amnesty is pretty generous.
Of the Mona Lisa, for instance, he says: "It has handwriting saying 'this way up' – as if somebody would make that mistake!" Some paintings are covered with labels charting previous owners or places to which the painting has toured; others reveal signs of damage, re-lining on material that in the case of Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson is no longer manufactured, and curious gallery techniques.
Along with buying over-priced policies from travel agents, another common mistake is assuming that you are covered by your credit card.
It's okay if mistakes are made here, they will be covered and/or washed away later on.
