Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Hunt has chosen to illustrate the parlous state of the NHS with his own family.  It is difficult to know where to start with how bad this is.  He is actively encouraging the overload of A&E.  He is encouraging reliance on the most expensive form of primary care instead of following the general advice on health and social care of encouraging prevention and early intervention.  He fails to accept responsibility for cutting GP provision which has contributed to the problems.  He is accused of trying to suppress information about winter pressures on the NHS. 

When he was Culture Secretary, I speculated he would soon go.  This was based on the sheer incompetence of a minister who didn't even know what "quasi judicial" meant when he was making decisions about Murdoch's takeovers.  However, I failed to take into account that in the Conservative government we now have incompetence is no barrier to office.