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NHS pension strike—we are preparing to make a stand

June 15, 2012

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 […]

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Peter Bailey: Striking for a duck island

June 6, 2012

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 […]

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Edward Davies: Call for the spin doctor—this pension strike will need the mother of all PR campaigns

May 31, 2012

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 […]

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Rhys Davies: 21 June—is there a medical student in the house?

May 31, 2012

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 […]

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Helen Jaques: NHS pensions: the saga continues

December 21, 2011

One story has dominated my first year as news reporter for BMJ Careers: pensions. And what a compelling story it has been.  The issue kicked off way back in March […]

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David Payne: Jeremy Clarkson and public sector strikers

December 2, 2011

The eurozone is in crisis, Britain’s embassy has been stormed in Iran, youth unemployment is above a million, and the US Republicans are struggling to field a presidential candidate whose […]

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Edward Davies: Cuts, pensions, and perspective

November 30, 2011

Walking to the NHS Alliance’s annual conference through Manchester this morning, the streets were peppered with small pickets. University staff, civil servants, transport workers, all sorts of folk objecting to […]

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Edward Davies: Sex scandal

July 29, 2011

Sex and pensions do not comfortable bedfellows make, but I feel I must write something about this. While most of the current talk on UK pensions is about increased contributions […]

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