Wes Streeting has called on the British Medical Association to be “friends, not foes” to help fix a broken NHS under the looming threat of tight budgets and the popularity of the Reform Party.

The Health Secretary was speaking at a special meeting of the BMA’s representative body as doctors told the organisation of their concerns that the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan for England may result in poorer standards of care for patients.

Mr Streeting said Labour’s first year in power – which has seen talks over pay and conditions for NHS staff and doctors – should be seen as a “willingness to rebuild the relationship between doctors and Government that should be grounds for optimism”.

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He said: “The Govern

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