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Hunt dismisses Stephen Hawking's warnings on our health service's future
JEREMY HUNT continued to go on the defensive yesterday over comments made by Professor Stephen Hawking about his concerns over the NHS.
At a recent conference for the Royal Society of Medicine in London, the famous physicist and Cambridge University professor said he feared the government was moving towards a US-style private insurance system.
The 75-year-old, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1962, said he "would not be here today if it were not for the service."
Health Secretary Mr Hunt has dismissed Professor Hawking's concerns that new "accountable care organisation models" in the NHS were a step towards an insurance-based system.
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