Jeremy Hunt ‘ignored’ NHS staff shortages while health secretary

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  1. This is particularly bearing fruit now in light of the ~800 newly qualified doctors who were on a reserve list for their first job in the NHS.

    They’re allocated to something now but the system doth not consider people’s childcare and family committments for this.

    I suspect that there isn’t a single doctor rota at any level of the NHS that wouldn’t benefit from another person staffing it.

    It’s the same with the misunderstood statistic that every doc is leaving or doing locum work for the big money. At every level specialty training has been vastly oversubscribed but there are still HUGE gaps everywhere in service delivery resulting in worse quality consultants in the future as they will have spent their formative years in departments filling gaps not improving their skills.

    This workforce crisis has been a long time coming.

    I believe the govt needs to use its new powers to expand the numbers of training jobs in the NHS otherwise these backlogs are never going to be reduced.

  2. Ignored them!…He actively worked to undermine the pipeline of new staff. The nurses bursary for example.

    It all stinks. How does Jeremy Hunt go from minster of health to being
    The Chair of the Health Select Committee which is there to scuntanse the actions of ministers.

    The tory government are gangsters and thieves. The opposition has been colonised by establishment lickspittles like starmer and ashworth. These traitors have caused the unnecessary suffering and death of tens of thousands. Decimated our health service and left the health of a nation on a knife edge.
    It is a crime against humanity!

  3. Anyone who was paying attention during his terrible tenure knows this. He was awful and I have never forgiven him, nor will I.

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