Issues facing new health secretary, from Covid to social care reform, are among the most challenging an incumbent has seen
Sajid Javid’s appointment as health secretary replacing Matt Hancock at the Department of Health and Social care comes at a time when, as the British Medical Association put it, he has “probably the most daunting in-tray that any secretary of state for health has ever inherited”.
Covid, the NHS’s unique role in British life and the pressures it is under mean that Javid is now the most high-profile job in the government after the prime minister. Whoever holds the post regularly has to take big, often controversial, decisions.
Continue reading...from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3xSFV2W
Comments
Post a Comment