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  GP chief to launch scathing attack on Jeremy Hunt over out-of-hours care
  
  Speech by Dr Laurence Buckman to BMA committee to say plans unrealistic and health secretary
  
  doesn't bother with facts
  
  The BMA's head of GPs is to attack plans to put out-of-hours care back into the hands of family doctors.
  
  The growing row between the government and doctors will get worse when the leader of Britain's GPs accuses
  
  the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of "spouting rubbish" and rejects his demand that family doctors take
  
  back responsibility for out-of-hours care.
  
  Dr Laurence Buckman, the chair of the British Medical Association's GPs committee - which represents the
  
  UK's 40,000 GPs - is to launch a sustained personal assault on Hunt over his "denigration" of GPs and his
  
  blaming of them for the growing crisis in A&E care.
  
  Buckman's speech, to Thursday's annual conference of the BMA's local medical committees (GP branches),
  
  will highlight the increasingly vocal unease about Hunt's approach felt by the BMA and the medical royal
  
  colleges which represent the UK's nurses and GPs.

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