What did ‘#IminworkJeremy’ Hunt actually say about doctors working weekends?

Well, it’s fair to say that Jeremy Hunt’s going to have a fun time at the next doctors’ conference he attends. There’s the #Iminworkjeremy trend on social media of furious doctors pointing out that they already work at weekends, and are not playing golf, as they believe the Health Secretary claimed. There’s the multiple petitions calling on the Health Secretary to resign, be sacked, or be subject to a vote of no confident in Parliament. And there are the furious op-eds from doctors who feel completely undervalued.

Now, doctors do work weekends, and they also work twilight shifts and long weeks of nights, and they also have to certify people as dead in the middle of the night, or get punched by a confused patient at 10 in the morning, run to a cardiac arrest in the car park at the end of a 13 hour shift and prescribe medication to help with the horrible panic suffered by someone who has been told they have just six weeks to live.