Doctors pass motion of no confidence in Jeremy Hunt. Good.

The health service that employs you is under more scrutiny than ever before, with shocking cases of bad care, ‘never events’ and serious lapses crawling out of the woodwork. The regulator that was supposed to keep an eye on all of this is under attack, not just for missing it, but also for apparently deciding not to publish what details it did know, and then deciding to withhold key names implicated in a ‘cover-up’. So what, in its eternal wisdom, does the trade union representing you do?

The British Medical Association, which has always managed a veneer of respectability over and above many other public sector unions, today passed a motion of ‘no confidence’ in Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary. A motion proposed by the Islington Division of the BMA reads:

‘That this meeting notes with disgust the Secretary for Health’s attack on hospitals, accusing hard-pressed NHS staff of ‘mediocrity and coasting’.