Pressure is mounting on the chancellor to take action on NHS pensions, as two former pensions ministers on Wednesday called for the “fundamentally rotten” tapered annual allowance to be scrapped.

On the go: Senior NHS doctors will cut their working hours unless there is tangible reform to the health service pension scheme, the British Medical Association warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday.

The government should force employers to match voluntary pension contributions made above auto-enrolment minimums, according to investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown.