We are planning to take industrial action at our GP surgery. We’re unanimous about the blatant inequity being thrust down our throats by Mr Lansley and the anger we feel is palpable. We weren’t completely in agreement about what we’d be prepared to do about it—but when the date was announced, we realised that the […]
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Peter Bailey: Striking for a duck island
A few days ago I was asked by a local radio station to give an opinion about the strike action being planned by the medical profession over pensions. I told them that in view of the fact that I was already retired and drawing my pension, I was perhaps hors de combat and should leave […]
Edward Davies: Call for the spin doctor—this pension strike will need the mother of all PR campaigns
This strike is not going down well. Or to quote the Daily Telegraph, this “unseemly spectacle” is not going down well. And it’s not just the Telegraph. “There is no gold left and the doctors need to recognise that this applies to them,” says The Times. “Doctors should be ashamed of themselves,” says the Independent. […]
Rhys Davies: 21 June—is there a medical student in the house?
Yesterday, the BMA announced the results of its members’ ballot on industrial action. Tens of thousands of doctors across different branches of medicine responded, coming out strongly in favour of industrial action. With a mandate to move forward, the BMA have scheduled a day of industrial action on 21 June. Doctors will perform only urgent […]