The BMA has expressed disappointment at the Court of Appeal’s dismissal of a judicial review into the government’s handling of NHS pension reforms, saying that doctors were being made to pay for the mistakes of ministers.
In 2022 the BMA was granted permission for a judicial review appealing the government’s attempts to make members pay for the costs of the McCloud remedy—the mechanism put in place to fix mistakes the government made when reforming the NHS pension scheme in 2015.1 The McCloud judgment found that the government had discriminated against younger members when it implemented changes to public sector …