Ombudsman Services. Livewell Southwest Ltd. Data. Hans Rosling 1948-2017. (570)

To the Business, Energy and industrial Strategy secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 569.

570) Ombudsman Services. Livewell Southwest ltd. Data. Hans Rosling 1948-2017.

Dear Mr Clark,

Hans Rosling was a Swedish physician, academic, public speaker and statistician. He died on the 7th Feb 2017.

Facts were important to Hans Rosling. For him, facts were more important than myths.

Claire Provost wrote,
"Giving the timing, with all the talk about fake news, alternative facts, concern over misinformation and propaganda-by-numbers, Rosling stood for the exact opposite - the idea we can have debates about what could or should be done, but that facts and an open mind are needed before informed discussions can begin."
(www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/07/hans-rosling-obituary)

Isabella Lovin, Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister  said on Facebook,
"I think the whole world will miss his vision and his way of standing up for the facts - unfortunately, it feels they are necessary more than ever at the moment - so the loss is even more painful."

We need facts and an open mind before informed discussions can begin.

The RICS' Ombudsman Services:Property and the NHS' Livewell Southwest Ltd have done their utmost, it would appear, to ensure that no meaningful facts see the light of day and as a consequence no debate and no informed discussions are permitted to take place.

Discussions which open all of our minds to what it is that is really going on behind the scenes at these two organisations.

It seems that the minds of the OFT monitors of this government approved redress schemes weren't focussed 100% on the job in hand. The OFT wrote to us saying,
"I can assure you, however, that the OFT receives copies of the surveys in question and will take into account their findings as part of our ongoing monitoring of OSP's redress scheme..
I have investigated this matter and understand that OSP have confirmed that the new company (replacing DJS Research) will ask the same questions as those used on previous surveys, with the addition of some new ones about the OSP website."
(Head or ERCC oft Our ref: EPIC/ENQ/E/138617 8th Feb 2013)

Q. Mr Clark, what surveys would that be? There don't appear to be any - why is that?

To Claire Provost's list of fake news, alternative facts, misinformation and propaganda by numbers we can now add - OSP surveys and a NHS embargo on statistics.

Mr Clark, as a tribute to the work and memory of Hans Rosling, why not go to www.ombudsman-services.org and compare DJS Research's thoroughly independent and highly revealing surveys with what exists now. It is the very least anyone with an open mind and belief in truth and justice could and should do.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert.