GPs are set to be balloted on what could become co-ordinated, NHS-wide industrial action against the Government's pension reforms, it has been reported.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has forged a strategic alliance with key health unions, according to Pulse, the GP's trade magazine. BMA leaders have agreed with 16 other unions representing healthcare workers to plead a special case for the NHS Pension Scheme, with the threat of combined industrial action if ministers refuse to back down. Delegates at the BMA's annual meeting have also voted to ballot doctors on ‘all forms of industrial action' if the Government presses ahead with its pension plans - in particular, the scrapping of consultants' final-salary scheme. Pulse rep...
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