Scandals like Gosport will be repeated until government targets are banned | Simon Jenkins

Something is rotten when lone whistleblowers are relied on to enforce good behaviour in the NHS

Who should have blown the whistle at Gosport? Nurses, managers, other doctors, relatives or hospital inspectors? Who was in charge of 456 premature deaths, and what does “in charge” mean in the elephantine bureaucracy that is Britain’s National Health Service?

The answer is it means nothing. It cannot be otherwise in an institution bigger than any other public or private corporation in Europe. Stagge...