HEALTH Secretary Jeremy Hunt ran scared from NHS protesters yesterday after they gave him a noisy reception during a shambolic visit to a Yorkshire health centre.

Mr Hunt arrived at Robin Lane Medical Centre in Pudsey in Leeds to be greeted by 20 demonstrators from local trade union branches.

Among them was GMB Yorkshire and north Derbyshire regional secretary Tim Roache, who said Mr Hunt refused to answer questions put to him by demonstrators about what the government is doing to the NHS.

“It was a total farce,” he said. “He got out of his car, walked into the centre, shook a few hands, walked out again, got back into his car and that was it.

“He can’t have been there more than 30 seconds. If it had been a private medical centre he’d have stayed an hour.”