Jeremy Hunt

Jeremy Hunt @Jeremy_Hunt

Fantastic turnout for our Farnham litter pick this afternoon at Langhams Recreation Ground - thanks to all. Let’s get rid of it! https://t.co/bko0awrpj5 — PolitiTweet.org

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And a storming @Telegraph leader column to make the same point: https://t.co/Mx2BABixa3 — PolitiTweet.org

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It's now or never for social care reform: https://t.co/iyyIfi6f6E — PolitiTweet.org

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Have now been contacted by senior NHS person who is looking into this v concerning situation urgently — PolitiTweet.org

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@bengi_o @rosie4westlancs @ClaireCNWL This is totally and utterly unacceptable. I have contacted the NHS to get the situation resolved ASAP — PolitiTweet.org

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Round up of my week in Westminster for SW Surrey residents https://t.co/oU4iWnUBuU — PolitiTweet.org

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However the immediate dividend from his leadership has been the superb NHS response to the pandemic: every patient that needed a ventilator or ICU bed got one and we have rolled out the best vaccination programme in Europe. He should feel extremely proud today. — PolitiTweet.org

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The progress that will now be made changing the primary model of care towards integrated care will not become clear for a while, not least because it depends on new legislation we expect shortly - but it will none the less be enormous. — PolitiTweet.org

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But his skills as an operator should not be allowed to conceal his deeply-held passion and support for everything the NHS stands for. He will be remembered for giving the world's 5th largest organisation strategic direction at a time of great challenge. — PolitiTweet.org

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Simon is a formidable operator, taking more trouble to be briefed on key facts ahead of meetings with ministers or the PM than anyone else I met. He has the rare quality of being able to stay silent in meetings unless he has something important to say, a rare quality in Whitehall — PolitiTweet.org

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We had a symbiotic relationship: he gave the NHS confidence they had one of their own at the top and I made sure its voice was heard loud and clear in government circles. That partnership ultimately meant a successful negotiation for a 10 year plan & £20 bn budget uplift in 2018 — PolitiTweet.org

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Despite his time as a special adviser in No 10 and in the private sector in the US, SImon has always been NHS to his core. But neither he nor I knew just how bumpy things would become with immense operational and financial pressures across the NHS and social care system. — PolitiTweet.org

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When we recruited for a successor to Sir David Nicholson in 2013, there was a good deal of trepidation about the role following controversy over the 2012 Act. Simon, however, was the standout candidate and hiring him remains one of the best decisions I have ever taken. — PolitiTweet.org

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Big news for the NHS that Sir Simon Stevens is stepping down. A thread... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TelePolitics: "We must not allow our compassion for the likes of Nazanin to be turned into a weapon against us...It is time to make the… — PolitiTweet.org

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Very smart analysis from @elliottengage. Boris can and must fix social care...https://t.co/ECtSftrUM7 https://t.co/noRL5WZpZG — PolitiTweet.org

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But the biggest unknown was the extent of airborne rather than surface infections. Future guidelines need more focus on ventilation than hands & surfaces. Upgrading ventilation systems - esp in old hospitals - is expensive, but clearly worth doing to prepare for future pandemics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Speed of testing in hospitals is also a vital tool we should have used earlier: why did it take until November to introduce weekly testing of NHS staff? https://t.co/dGIrH3MOaC — PolitiTweet.org

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We should definitely have earlier advice to adhere to social distancing in the non-Covid areas of hospitals. This select committee exchange with Prof Steve Powis demonstrates why crucial time was lost in the early stages: https://t.co/2zsI8EbZfG — PolitiTweet.org

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So what should the lesson be? Given the CQC has looked at some hospitals who have had multiple hospital acquired outbreaks and found infection controls were good it makes you think that these weren’t the right controls. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why does this matter? Apart from the human tragedy of so many avoidable deaths, the SAGE paper noted “without any nosocomial transmission the duration of the first wave in hospitals may have been shortened.” — PolitiTweet.org

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This is not just an England issue. In Scotland at the end of January there were 4055 hospital acquired cases which made up around 21% of COVID hospital patients: https://t.co/b6H9QafE8v — PolitiTweet.org

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Upper estimates of this data suggest that around 36,000 cases in the first wave were caught this way which could mean 8,000 deaths related to hospital acquired COVID occurred in that wave: https://t.co/vd6QTivDC8 — PolitiTweet.org

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It was even worse: a paper by PHE and LSHTM for SAGE in January stated that 20-25% of infections in hospital patients in the first wave were hospital acquired: https://t.co/bb2yTUTIZM — PolitiTweet.org

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Hospital acquired COVID-19 remains a major problem as it STILL accounts for 15% of COVID hospital patients: https://t.co/Iy22oDwon9 It remains the biggest undiscussed problem in the pandemic to date: a thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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The risk of our current approach to Nazanin is that we are counting on publicly shaming of Iran when they have shown they don’t care what we think or say. There have to be consequences for hostage diplomacy otherwise it is just bark and no bite https://t.co/zFgCTgkPgv — PolitiTweet.org

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Connor Sparrowhawk died in terrible circumstances in an NHS assessment and treatment unit when I was Health Secretary in 2013. Since then his mother Sara Ryan has become a formidable campaigner for people with learning disabilities. Here's her powerful testimony https://t.co/04MJE5B6gV — PolitiTweet.org

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Feels like a big intervention by the social care sector insisting that the sector must not be forgotten in the Queen's Speech — PolitiTweet.org

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When our system of discharging people with autism and learning disabilities into the community is so obviously failing, why are we continuing to do more of the same? My question to care minister Helen Whately https://t.co/lOrikifcBH — PolitiTweet.org

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Some moments in a select committee just stop you in your tracks: listen to this mother of an autistic daughter describe the agony of being prevented from seeing her except through the glass pane of her hospital door (nothing to do with Covid) https://t.co/X7o22hQMjk — PolitiTweet.org