Austerity social care cuts were "silent killer" | Jeremy Hunt interview | The New Statesman
May 29, 2022
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as posted by the channelThe austerity cuts to social care under David Cameron and George Osborne "went too far", says Jeremy Hunt who was Health Secretary at the time.
Hunt said he "regrets" the cuts, and hopes that for Sajid Javid "it doesn't take as long for the penny to drop" as it did for him. "When I was Health Secretary and I was seeing our hospitals filling up because we couldn't get people out into the community, I realised how dangerous that was".
The problem became worse during and after the Covid pandemic: hospitals have struggled to discharge patients into the community creating a backlog in treatment which in some cases has cost lives.
Anoosh Chakelian has spoken to ambulance drivers and NHS staff to understand how the Covid backlog and cuts to NHS funding is affecting patient care. Watch her report here
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Jeremy Hunt was Health Secretary under David Cameron and Theresa May, and oversaw controversial cuts to the health system as part of the austerity project which led to the junior doctors’ strike in 2016.
Under Boris Johnson - whom Hunt ran against in the 2019 Conservative leadership race, he chairs the Health and Social Care committee.
In this interview he speaks to Anoosh Chakelian, host of the New Statesman podcast, about his regrets over NHS social care cuts, how the government should respond to the cost of living crisis, partygate, and whether he would seek to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
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