Doctors may strike over pension reform

The union warned last night it will open a ballot on 14 May asking doctors to withhold all but emergency treatment for 24 hours, in its first ballot for industrial action for 37 years. If the strike goes ahead, doctors would go to work as normal, but would only provide emergency or urgent care and refuse to undertake duties that could be safely postponed, the BMA said. "Decisions about what could safely be postponed would be based on the professional judgement of doctors locally who, with the support of the BMA, would aim to work with employers, so that as much advance notice can be g...