How to be health secretary - Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and Nick Timmins

Episode 1,   Oct 21, 2020, 11:01 PM

What is the role of the health secretary? What should it be, and how does it and should it relate to the management of the NHS?

The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP and author Nick Timmins discuss how to be health secretary with Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive of the Health Foundation.

The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP talks to Health Foundation chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon about his tenure as the longest-serving health secretary.

They are joined by award-winning author Nicholas Timmins, writer of the Health Foundation book, Glaziers and window breakers, which includes interviews with 11 former health secretaries together with original analysis. A new edition of the book, featuring the full interview with Jeremy Hunt, is now available to download, read online or order.

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