
The Government has set out how suspected criminality in healthcare must be handled. It has done so in clear terms: • early police engagement • formal recording • evidence preservation • coordinated investigation That is the standard now expressed in official 2024/2025 guidance. Our report places that standard alongside the documented Operation Talla approach: • requests for assistance rejected • allegations not recorded • investigative pathways not engaged The contrast is not marginal. It is structural and it is stark. One model opens the doorway to the justice process, whilst the other prevents the doorway from being opened at all. This is not a question of outcomes. Rather, it is a question of entry into the rule of law itself. Our full report (with source materials annexed): ethicalapproach.co.uk/investigating_…










