Medical insurgency

Bloody Minded Association only holds back NHS

- Alan Johnson

n a typical piece of straight talking this week, Wes Streeting expressed his exasperation with the doctors' union, the British Medical Association (BMA).

When I was Health Secretary I felt equally frustrated by their antics.

In 2008, with NHS waiting times slashed from an average of two years under the Tories to eight weeks and public satisfaction with hospital care at record levels, the last Labour government set out to improve access to GP surgeries.