New Health Secretary

[bridge too far]

will be Jeremy Hunt. Be ready to pay Sky subscriptions for your 'free' healthcare

[TopGun]

Perhaps the Murdochs want a slice of the health market. Just don't get ill!

 

Dune will be doing his nut today, unable to get on here and spout his reactionary views!

[badgerx16]

At least you can't spoonerise him now.

[Special K]

Seems an odd choice to me. Lansley needed replacing, but Hunt seems spectacularly ill equipped for such a demanding post.

[bridge too far]

Seems an odd choice to me. Lansley needed replacing, but Hunt seems spectacularly ill equipped for such a demanding post.

 

Probably his reward for not dropping Dave in the mire over Murdoch

[Saint in Paradise]

Doubt it will make much difference. Our daughter has been on a waiting list for an operation

for months now, she had a pre-op exam 4 weeks ago and might have her op before

Christmas but that isn't a promise.

[swannymere]

If Hunt does anything to **** up the NHS i'm going to batter him to death with my testes.

[pap]

Terrible appointment. Like many, was surprised to see Hunt retain his old job. Reading between the lines, sounds like they want an implementor for their "carve up the NHS for private profit" plan. Hunt's comparative lack of scruples (source: rattlesnake) makes him the ideal appointment for the Conservatives' plan, not so great for anyone who has a "health".

 

Bandit government.

[saintfully]

Just another spiv in a government full of spivs.

 

Or just plain incompetents? Hunt believes in the magic of homeopathy for example, and Grant Schapps internet company and hilarious recession guidebook are both tragic and inane.

[Saint Keith]

Seems an odd choice to me. Lansley needed replacing, but Hunt seems spectacularly ill equipped for such a demanding post.

 

old news. we knew it was happening back in june, but the whole reshuffle got delayed as hunt was heavily involved in the olympics, and was in a little bit of bother with the murdochs at the time

[saintfully]

old news. we knew it was happening back in june, but the whole reshuffle got delayed as hunt was heavily involved in the olympics, and was in a little bit of bother with the murdochs at the time

 

Just out of interest, whose the 'we' you refer to? You a hospital guvnor?

[Saint Keith]

Just out of interest, whose the 'we' you refer to? You a hospital guvnor?

 

yes

[Minty]

Quite a significant shift to right with many of these appointments it seems, to facilitate a 'growth at any cost' policy IMO... the new Environment Minister for example, looks like someone who'll quite happily support a third Heathrow runway and continue the relaxation of planning laws.

[bridge too far]

In 2009, the new Health Secretary co-authored a pamphlet (with Dan Hannan, as it happens) arguing for the NHS to be dismantled.

 

http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/jeremy-hunt-co-authored-book-in-2009.html

[Thedelldays]

and this effects us how..?

[Saint Keith]

and this effects us how..?

 

some of the more hardline and controversial elements of the health and social care bill might get softened a bit in implementation

[bridge too far]

some of the more hardline and controversial elements of the health and social care bill might get softened a bit in implementation

 

Based on Hunt's views on the NHS as recently as 2009, I very much doubt it TBH.

[saintfully]

yes

 

Cheers, which hospital/trust?

 

What do you reckon the effect of the changes will be on hospitals - rather than GP's, which is all the media seems to want to talk about?

[TopGun]

Overall it looks pretty clear that Cameron and Osborne have removed ministers who may oppose their own economic and/or political programmes.

 

Obviously, removal of Justine Greening at Transport makes it easier to get Heathrow expansion back on the agenda for debate.

 

In my own field, most of the energy generation companies are displeased with the removal of Charles Hendry as energy minister as he was doing a balanced job with nuke, coal, gas and wind and had gained respect and trust. His replacement, John Hayes, is also on the record as being sceptical of renewable energy sources, especially wind turbines - hence likely to be a Treasury place man to counter the LD Sec of State Ed Davey as well as pleasing Tory shire MPs.

Edited 5 September, 2012 by TopGun

[pap]

They're building a core of yes men to push their plans through. There has never been any swerving from this course. I was getting offers for work for private sector companies taking over NHS services for months before anything was official.

 

The basic plan, with pretty much everything, is to feck public institutions up and send the private sector into rescue, thus lining the pockets of as many pals and future employers as possible.

[Ric]

and this effects us how..?

 

If he starts diverting more NHS cash into homeopathy (God help us, he actually believes that it works ), it potentially could affect anyone who doesn't get a medicine or treatment that's been proved to work because there isn't the money for it.

[bridge too far]

Pleasing to see that the new Conservative Party co-chairman is so adept at selective editing:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200536/Tory-chairman-Grant-Shapps-removes-exam-results-political-gaffes-Wikipedia-page.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/07/google-blacklists-websites-grant-shapps-family?newsfeed=true