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Overcoming the barriers to openness

34 Having considered the barriers to openness, we turn now to the changes necessary to overcome them, always bearing in mind the objective we seek to achieve: to ensure that the maximum effort and energy is spent to improve safety across the NHS. This can only be achieved when we have created an environment of openness so as to give rise to a systematic flow of information.