Jeremy Hunt attacks the NHS again. Why criticising the health service is both clever

[Northerner]

"Health secretary attacks health service" is a interesting headline, but one that, in varying forms, is becoming more common. Jeremy Hunt is today lambasting GPs and others over dementia care. In recent weeks, he's also criticised standards of nursing care and doctors' working patterns. No prizes for guessing what he'll do when the Mid-Staffs inquiry reports.

This is striking and surprising because we've been used to health ministers acting as advocate and gladiatorial champion of the NHS, extolling its virtues and slaying its critics.

So what has changed? Does Mr Hunt just dislike the health service and relish the chance to slag it off? Not as far as I know, no. Instead, there is political calculation at work here.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/j...-health-service-is-both-clever-and-dangerous/

 

[trophywench]

Yup, that's why we are changing it, LOL

Because it's so awfully awfully bad. Must be - bloke who invented it wasn't a Tory educated at Eton neither had he been to Sandhurst - and look what a mess HE landed us in.

Tssk .........