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The doctors’ union today passed a vote of no confidence in Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
An “overwhelming majority” of the 500 delegates at the British Medical Association’s annual meeting in Edinburgh endorsed the criticism of Mr Hunt in the wake of huge Government changes to the NHS.
They said the reforms were “bad for patients, bad for the NHS and bad for the public” and called for the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force in April, to be repealed.
BMA council member Dr Jacky Davis said Mr Hunt — whose predecessor Andrew Lansley also suffered a vote of no confidence — was “at the forefront of a new political blame game, blaming frontline NHS staff for the predictable chaos resulting from his government’s reforms and cuts”.
Dr Davis added: “We are watching a good service brought to its knees by vandals in Westminster.”
The Department of Health said it was “completely right” that Mr Hunt sought the best care for patients. A spokesman said: “It is clear that the culture of the NHS needs to change and it is disappointing that the BMA union still doesn’t accept that.”
Jeremy Hunt was today urged to publish documents on the treatment of a whistleblower who raised the alarm over hospital baby deaths. MPs called on Mr Hunt to reveal how Department of Health bosses dealt with calls to sack Kay Sheldon from the Care Quality Commission.