Victoria Macdonald
Jeremy Hunt breaks up Mid Staffs Foundation Trust
Mid-Staffs NHS trust became a byword for neglectful, inhumane care. And with a trashed reputation, and an £11m deficit, turning it around is no longer an option.
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Jeremy Hunt promises to recruit thousands of mental health workers
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to recruit thousands more mental health workers, in the hope of having enough staff to treat a million more patients by 2020. Critics have questioned how it will be funded and point out that thousands of posts are still unfilled. This programme has learned of a 14-year-old…
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NHS: Jeremy Hunt
Interview with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Has Jeremy Hunt misled junior doctors over ‘imposing’ contracts?
Jeremy Hunt has been very guarded in his use of language around imposition versus introduction of junior doctors’ contracts.
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Junior doctors: Jeremy Hunt offers pay rise to avert strike
Jeremy Hunt launches a last-ditch effort to bring junior doctors back to the negotiating table over a new contract.
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Jeremy Hunt tries to reassure junior doctors in contract row
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt attempts to diffuse the junior doctors’ contracts row, insisting it is not about saving money or imposing longer hours.
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Jeremy Hunt takes on doctors over seven-day working
The health secretary says new hospital consultant contracts are needed to end the “Monday to Friday” culture in the NHS.
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Jeremy Hunt wants hospitals ‘as safe as planes’
Avoidable deaths in English hospitals are the “biggest scandal in global healthcare”, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says as he announces plans to end the “cover-up culture” in the NHS.
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Victoria Macdonald
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Jeremy Hunt: hospitals needs ‘nursing numbers’
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says hospitals need “nursing numbers” in order to be “good”, but says he is not the one to guarantee that NHS nursing levels are restored to 2010 levels.
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Jeremy Hunt vows Tories will give CQC ‘teeth’
Jeremy Hunt announces the Conservatives will give the Care Quality Commission “teeth” to investigate any hospital or trust, without needing state permission, in the wake of the Mid Staffs scandal.
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Is Jeremy Hunt turning GPs into immigration police?
Measures to crackdown on health tourism, including a “registration and tracking” system and the possibility of charging for GP services, are to be announced by the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Jeremy Hunt hints at pensions punishments at CQC
Jeremy Hunt has suggested that any executives responsible for a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission could be stripped of their pensions.
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GP chief throws blame for A&E crisis back at Jeremy Hunt
A senior doctor attacks Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for blaming GPs for exacerbating problems at overstretched accident and emergency departments.
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Jeremy Hunt ‘disgusted’ at hospital neglect
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he is “disgusted and appalled” at accounts of patient neglect at a hospital in Worcestershire, which is paying compensation to the families of 38 people.
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Victoria Macdonald
Jeremy Hunt’s conference message to the social care sector
The new health secretary was not at his most assured in his speech to the Conservative Party conference. But he had messages for the social care and charities sectors.
