What can Jeremy Hunt learn from past health secretaries?

Testimonies of former health secretaries reveal that while the details may have changed, the challenges of running the NHS remain largely the same

What do you learn from taking on the toughest job in government, secretary of state for health? At the Institute for Government three former secretaries – Conservative Stephen Dorrell and Labour’s Alan Milburn and Patricia Hewitt – shared their wisdom alongside incumbent Jeremy Hunt, who was apparently keen to learn from the wise words of his predecessors.

Co-hosted by the Health Foundation, it followed the publication of Glaziers and Window Breakers, interviews with 10 former secretaries of state, which was the first document Hunt found on his desk on returning to the Department of Health’s Richmond House headquarters after the election.

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