The British Medical Association is facing a major backlash from angry members and an exodus by medics disillusioned with its “appalling” handling of the bitter junior doctors’ dispute. Junior doctors have inundated their Facebook discussion group with angry messages about the BMA and Dr Ellen McCourt, the chair of the union’s junior doctors committee (JDC). “Time to form a new trade union – run by junior doctors and only for junior doctors. In a post on the Facebook site in response to the torrent of online anger, McCourt insisted the junior doctors’ campaign would go on. Defending the cancellation, she said: “We had a choice that included continuing the current planned industrial action, changing the planned IA or suspending the action.

Source: The Guardian September 26, 2016 18:33 UTC