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NHS minister Philip Dunne sacked
Jeremy Hunt’s deputy Philip Dunne, who recently received criticism for telling people to sit on seats if there are no hospital beds available, has been fired.
The MP for Ludlow was filling in for Jeremy Hunt, who was in Downing Street awaiting his own fate from the Prime Minister’s cabinet shuffle, when Dunne told the House of Commons ‘there are seats to sit on’ if there are not enough hospital beds.
Dunne caused outrage among opposition MPs and was criticised for his comments which were insensitive about the NHS winter crisis.
Nick Scriven, the president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “The seats comment sounds flippant and belittling of the problem that exists.
“If that is what he truly thinks, it shows a worrying lack of appreciation of reality in our emergency departments and acute medical units.”
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