COULD ANDY BURNHAM SERVE THE SHORTEST TERM OF ANY SECRETARY OF STATE SINCE THE NHS WAS CREATED?
It remains to be seen whether Andy Burnham will make a good health secretary. He is in a competition to see whether he will be the shortest-serving in the history of the NHS. Burnham’s main rival for the title is Dennis Vosper: the Conservative health minister from January to September 1957, a stint lasting 9 months, 52 years ago. Since then, only Alan Johnson since then has served less than a year (just a couple of weeks shy). If Gordon Brown waits until the last possible date, Burnham might just avoid the record of the shortest stint as health secretary in the history of the NHS.
