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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
Jeremy Hunt arrived at the Department of Health in September 2012 with a largely thankless task: dealing with the top-down reorganisation of the NHS his predecessor Andrew Lansley had introduced, but which his boss, David Cameron, had promised would not take place. Mr Hunt described the appointment as a “huge task and the biggest privilege of my life.”
Almost his entire time in office coincided with sharp restrictions on public spending, with nurses and other healthcare professionals subject to what would become a seven-year pay freeze. Removing bursaries for undergraduate and postgraduate nurses was equally unpopular and morale across the NHS nosedived as A&E targets were continually missed, waiting lists grew each year and every winter crisis appeared worse than the last.
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/jeremy-hunt-record-health-secretary-nhs-staff/
Almost his entire time in office coincided with sharp restrictions on public spending, with nurses and other healthcare professionals subject to what would become a seven-year pay freeze. Removing bursaries for undergraduate and postgraduate nurses was equally unpopular and morale across the NHS nosedived as A&E targets were continually missed, waiting lists grew each year and every winter crisis appeared worse than the last.
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/jeremy-hunt-record-health-secretary-nhs-staff/
