It’s a Hippocratic joke

IT is hard to escape the conclusion that the Left-wing British Medical Association is sacrificing patients’ care on the altar of a militant political agenda.

How else to explain GPs backing a strike threat over Sajid Javid’s call for more faceto-face consultations?

Incredibly, it came on the day it was revealed that 50,000 cancer sufferers went undiagnosed during the pandemic – many because family doctors offered only virtual appointments. Some will die needlessly.

Doctors swear a solemn vow to do everything within their powers to preserve life; shunning their own clinics is not part of the Hippocratic Oath.