Jeremy Hunt, a former health minister, described how the service he led for nearly six years was sometimes a “fake system” suffering from a culture of cover-up that failed patients and staff.
Hunt, who did not rule out the Tories’ candidacy for leadership, said the NHS’s fear of transparency and honesty about deaths and avoidable mistakes was a “major structural problem” that still needed to be addressed.
In his new book, Zero: Eliminate unnecessary deaths in the NHS after a pandemic, he reveals how government officials at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare tried to stop him from reading patients’ complaints and even told him he could not apologize to affected families. Before changing the position of the NHS, he says there
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