The visit was ostensibly to coincide with the party's announcement that it would put £2.5bn towards a care closer to home fund, which would put money into providing care options that avoid hospital admissions for older people.
Hospital admissions at weekends are different – they rarely come from outpatient clinics, which are held on weekdays: most are emergency admissions and tend to be more serious.
Those complaints are admissions that the state is, or ought to be, all of us working collectively for the common good.
One in five people turning up at hospital A&E departments has a musculoskeletal problem: putting a physiotherapist to work there, research suggests, can prevent unnecessary admissions and cut costs by as much as 60%.
While services decide how to cope with increasing numbers of drunk A&E admissions, many health professionals are urging individuals to take responsibility.
Ninety per cent of hospital admissions related to alcohol are not weekend binge-drinkers but individuals with long-term problems caused by chronic consumption, such as cirrhosis of the liver.
The scourge of modern medicine is fragmentation, over-investigation, poly pharmacy and repeated hospital admissions.
It is claimed that every two days a Brazilian woman dies while trying to end a pregnancy, and there are 200,000 hospital admissions a year as a result of bungled procedures.
An outcomes fund could pay for results such as avoiding hospital admissions, length of stay, maintained independence and deferring care home admissions.
Among the most startling admissions was the fact the drone strike was authorized by a senior counter-terrorism official without any specific information about who was in the immediate area, which had merely been identified as a compound frequented by al-Qaida leaders.
Hunt said on Friday: "Emergency admissions are growing about 3-4% year in, year out.
