United Kingdom confidentiality

Chemical Defense Establishment of the British War Office, was part of a larger effort by scientists in the United Kingdom and United States to explore the pharmacological and clinical aspects of mustard gas injury (Beale 1993).9 The first successful results appeared in April 1941. A year later Auerbach and Robson delivered their initial report of these experiments to the British Ministry of Supply. The report was considered confidential, however, and British censors delayed full disclosure of their findings until the war s end.10 In the interim, but still a full three years after completion of their initial experiment, Auerbach and Robson managed to publish a half-page research note in Nature (Auerbach and Robson 1944). That brief communication is remarkable mainly as an artifact of the British wartime security apparatus and less as an announcement heralding an important scientific discovery. 

Ben-Shlomo Y, Churchyard A, Head J, Hurwitz B, Overstall P, Ockelford J, Lees AJ. Investigation by Parkinson s Disease Research Group of United Kingdom into excess mortality seen with combined levodopa and selegiline treatment in patients with early, mild Parkinson s disease further results of randomised trial and confidential inquiry. BMJ 1998 316(7139) 1191-6. 

Why mothers die 1997-1999. The confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in the United Kingdom. London RCOG Press, 2001. 

The PPRS is a nonstatutory arrangement in which confidential profit negotiations are held between individual companies and the PPRS Secretariat on behalf of the Ministry of Health. This plan, which has existed in various forms since 1957, was designed for two purposes 1) to ensure that safe and effective medicines are available to the NHS on reasonable terms and 2) to ensure that the Department of Health and Social Security acts as a sponsor for the drug companies to maintain the industry as one of the United Kingdom s healthiest and most profitable (84). 

Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) (2011) Saving mothers lives reviewing maternal deaths to make motherhood safer 2006-08. The Eighth Report on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 118 (Suppl. 1), 1-203. 

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