Exclusive: BMA’s Dr Vishal Sharma says health secretary is ‘bending the truth’ over £78,000 figure
Doctors’ leaders have accused Steve Barclay of “bending the truth” after the health secretary exaggerated – for the second time – how much medics’ pensions are worth when they retire.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has received information from the NHS body that oversees staff pensions which disproves Barclay’s assertion – which he has often made during the ongoing doctors’ strikes – that consultants who retire at 65 receive a £78,000-a-year pension.
