How long can Jeremy Hunt duck blame for the NHS’s failings? | Denis Campbell

Health secretary’s self-serving script on the health service has obvious inadequacies, and he will eventually have to confront a few hard truths

Jeremy Hunt’s big speeches carry the same recurring message. The health secretary is a huge fan of the NHS, admiring of its many strengths and passionate about its importance in national life. But he is also the champion of patients, safety, transparency and ever-higher standards of care, and the scourge of anyone and anything he deems to be thwarting his ambition to create the world’s best, safest, most open, most efficient and soon-to-be 24/7 health service. With few exceptions, the media laps it up and rarely challenges Hunt’s narrative. He is a class act, in that sense at least.

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