'During the pandemic, what happened in seven years you see taking place over two years'
Secretary Humza Yousaf , accusing him of “chronic mismanagement” of the NHS since he took up his post in May 2021.
THERE’S not been the same pressure on England’s Health Secretary – perhaps because, thanks to the chaos of the Tory government atthere have been four in the post over the same amount of time. Current incumbent Steve Barclay first became Health Secretary after Sajid Javid quit in July 2022 as part of the wave of resignations which eventually triggered Boris Johnson’s downfall.
“If you take for example, waiting times, the graph has been sloping upwards for waiting times since the 2010s and then did seem to take a bit of a sharper turn around 2016/17 and it has been higher since with Covid.” “The ground the NHS was working on was tricky, difficult to start with – we have got an ageing population as well,” he said.
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