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Politics

What the NHS owes the Tories

Jeremy Hunt's focus on 'never events' is in the tradition of Nye Bevan

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

25 January 2014

9:00 AM

Pinned to the wall of Jeremy Hunt’s office in the Department of Health is an A1 piece of paper detailing that week’s ‘Never Events’. It catalogues the mistakes that have been made in NHS hospitals that should never have happened: people having the wrong leg amputated, swabs being left inside patients after surgery and the like.

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