NHS body parts scandal: criminal investigation launched
The ‘NHS body parts scandal’, in which hundreds of tonnes of medical waste including human body parts have been left to pile up by a firm unable to properly fulfil […]
Tag Archives: Health Secretary
Important: Keep our St Helier Hospital/NHS70 march this Saturday
The ‘Keep our St Helier Hospital’ (KOSHH) campaign has been fighting hard to prevent the planned closure and/or downgrading of one or both of Sutton’s hospitals. In recent months the […]
Hunt’s ‘Happy 70th’ to NHS is restricted treatments – and the anguish they will cause
Worst Health Secretary in history, Jeremy Hunt has presided over – most NHS workers and activists would say caused – the deepest crisis in the history of the nation’s greatest […]
Simple chart shows huge portion of NHS at risk from #Carillion-style collapses
NHS campaigners have long warned of accelerating Tory privatisation of the NHS since former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s 2012 Health and Social Care Act forced the NHS to put more and […]
Deaths under Mental Health Act detention TRIPLE
The Mental Health Act (MHA) allows for the detention of people with a mental health disorder for their own safety or that of others – but tragically, for some that detention […]
Hunt’s tearful plea for his job humiliates him and May, bodes ill for vulnerable
Comment Jeremy Hunt spent some 115 minutes closeted with Theresa May today. According to media sources such as Laura Kuenssberg, May intended to sack him and he ‘argued passionately’ for […]
Video: Corbyn on the brain – Tory MP names Labour leader as Health Sec on live TV
Comment section Ever since the General Election, the Tories have been obsessed with Jeremy Corbyn, sometimes quite openly. A right-wing think-tank even published an article titled “All that matters now […]
Video: ‘No NHS crisis, we have a plan’ – but Hunt admits last-minute
NHS England has told the BBC that there is ‘no NHS crisis’ because they have a plan – an interesting interpretation, since you can make plans to deal with a […]
Jeremy Hunt gets cocky – then gets schooled. #NHS
Very few people who know anything about the NHS would dispute the fact that Jeremy Hunt is the most unfit and damaging Health Secretary in history. For most, it’s a […]
Graph shows sheer scale of Hunt’s mental health ‘slip’ – second in two months
As the SKWAWKBOX covered yesterday, Jeremy Hunt had to admit that he had given false information to Parliament when he claimed there were 30,000 more mental health professionals under the Tories than […]