My favourite thing about public meetings is that you don?t have to ask any questions in public ? you can just have a quiet word afterwards with Some Important People (or some members of the team if you prefer) and then report that in the public domain instead. Even better, that way the people who made the effort to hold the meeting, document it and so on can all be bypassed Genius I mean: ?I was told that a lot of thought had gone in to whether this should have been done and a lot of people within the hospital thought it should not have been.? Who exactly said it, and who exactly are ?a lot of people within the hospital?? And what reasons did they have for objecting? And what consitutes ?a lot?? Half the people? 10% of the people? 1% of the people? If you spoke to some people after the meeting about this issue, chances are you attracted some people who wanted to complain ? so if they say ?a lot? of other people, how credible is that?