Appoint a Health Secretary with relevant qualifications & experience

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

All health secretaries appointed should have relevant qualifications i.e. health/scientific degree and healthcare experience.

M. Hancock is qualified in economics & philosophy with previous roles as Secretary of Digital, Media and Sport. This is inappropriate experience for a health secretary.

The secretary of health is important to secure the quality of care provided by health services and NHS. It is inappropriate to have a secretary with little to no experience in healthcare making decisions without the necessary knowledge.

Failures in the outbreak response have cost lives. Decisions were not critically assessed by M.H. due to inadequate knowledge:

- Herd immunity approach
- No airport screening
- No awareness of existing diagnostic lab services in the NHS

Why it was rejected

It was about honours or appointments, which petitions cannot cover.

Timeline

19 Apr 2020	Petition opened for signatures
2 Jun 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 2 Jun 2020

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