‘Defensive culture’ hindering timely patient safety investigations, MPs told

A culture of defensiveness, avoidance, complacency and denial in the health service is hindering patient safety issues being investigated in a timely manner, MPs have been told.

There have also been calls for probes to be carried out by trained professionals, rather than as an add-on to someone’s day job.

The comments were made in a Health and Social Care Committee evidence session as part of its probe into NHS leadership, performance and patient safety.