Jeremy Hunt says NHS was a ‘rogue system’ during his time as health secretary

In new book Hunt says he was shocked to his core' by failures in care and the system's fear of transparency

Jeremy Hunt has described sitting at the top of a rogue system" when he was health secretary and said he was shocked to his core" by failures in care.

The current chair of the Commons health and social care committee said a fear of transparency and honesty in the NHS when it comes to avoidable deaths and mistakes is a major structural problem" that must be addressed, in an excerpt from his new book published in the Sunday Times.