Thread by @DrDomPimenta

The legacy of @Jeremy_Hunt, UK Secretary of State for Health, 2012-2018.

Just the numbers. /thread

https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Hunt/status/1016428613309227009

£577m was the NHS surplus in 2012.
-£6 billion is the projected NHS deficit for 2018. /1
nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/the-b…

2015 was the year Jeremy Hunt suppressed NICE guidance on minimum nurse ratios. /2
google.com/amp/s/www.inde…

£4000 is the projected amount of pay lost by NHS nurses since the start of the pay freeze in 2010. /3 google.com/amp/s/www.mirr…

96% is the drop in the number of applications from EU nurses since 2016. /4
google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

At least 40,000 nurses are currently missing in 2018. Statistically nurse:patient ratios have the greatest impact on mortality. /5 fullfact.org/health/are-we-…

7000 is the number of mental health nurses cut from the service since 2010. fullfact.org/health/mental-… /6

5000 is the number of mental health beds cut since 2010. fullfact.org/health/were-no… /7

70% is the percentage of children with mental health issues being admitted far away from home, sometimes hundreds of miles /8 google.com/amp/s/www.tele…

24th is our mental health beds/population ranking amongst 28 European countries. This actually dropped between 2010-2015. /9

2.8 per 1000 is the number of doctors in the U.K., the lowest in the EU excepting Romania and Poland. /10

10,000 is the number of doctors missing from the NHS. The NHS is short of
100,000 staff overall. /11 google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

5000 extra GPs were promised by Jeremy Hunt in 2015. In 2018 the number of GPs actually fell by >1000. /12 thetimes.co.uk/article/1-000-…

25% of junior Doctors and 20% of senior doctors self-reported as “burnt out in 2018. /13

95% is the number of patients supposed to be seen and assessed within 4 hours in A&E. It has been 3 years since this was last met.
fullfact.org/health/when-wa… /14

Current A&E waiting times are the worst since records began. Dozens of EDs have been closed or downgraded since 2010. 24 more planned. /15 google.com/amp/s/metro.co…

18 weeks was supposed to be the maximum wait for routine surgery. Jeremy scrapped this in 2017. /16 google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

2 months is supposed to be the maximum wait between GP referral for suspected cancer and starting treatment. We haven’t been above this target since 2014. /17

3.7% has been the average annual NHS funding increase since 1948.
0.9% has been the average NHS funding increase this decade.
2.9% is the average projected rise if £20b is given as promised by 2020. health.org.uk/sites/health/f… /18

£30b was the amount required to “stand still” by 2020. So far the NHS has actually received £4b. google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
fullfact.org/health/10-bill… /19

120,000 is the number of people who have likely died due to healthcare and social cuts since 2010 who otherwise would not have. A finding repeatedly demonstrated elsewhere. google.com/amp/s/www.inde… /20

rsm.ac.uk/about-us/media… /20

Jeremy Hunt leaves the NHS far worse off than he found it; understaffed, underfunded, demoralised and far less safe. /21

1.2m is the number of #NHS England staff bidding @Jeremy_Hunt adieu with a goodbye message:

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

/end