Streeting is not beloved by GPs. He is doing his damnedest to kill the partnership model (without understanding what that actually means), is obsessed with Big Data and AI and technology as the saviour to increased demand, and is trying to impose a new GP contract which will trigger more industrial action. There is a shortage of GPs and also no jobs for GPs thanks to the funding model, with an ongoing slide towards replacing qualified doctors with physician associates.
However, he has fought for more money for the NHS (for secondary care, where most of the money goes, despite the huge majority of patient contacts being in primary care). He also has been strong and sensible on the harms of youth gender medicine and I agreed with his stance on assisted dying (where he seemed to have actually listened to Palliative Care doctors). I actually agree with merging NHSE and DHSC - don't know why there are some many intermediary levels of bureaucracy in the NHS with corresponding lack of accountability.
So IMO he isn't the worst Health Sec on record but far from the best and I think Big Data is a clear and present threat so any dewy-eyed cheerleaders (with an eye on post-Parliament tech jobs - yep, looking at you Clegg) make me extremely nervous especially in the health realm.
I agree with PP that the media are part of the problem (with the rapid turnover of PMs), baying for blood, pushing and pushing the narrative, trying to make a story to have something to endlessly pontificate about. But Streeting has played right into their hands. Ugh.