GPs must consider industrial action to achieve full pay restoration, say leaders

GPs fully support junior doctors’ strike action and must consider taking a similar approach to achieve their own pay restoration, a conference of local GP leaders has heard.The annual conference of UK local medical committees, taking place on 18-19 May in London, applauded the “organisation and courage” of the BMA’s Junior Doctors Committee for taking industrial action in its fight for pay restoration.Junior doctors in England have carried out two rounds of strike action—a 72 hour walkout from 13 to 15 March and a 96 hour walkout from 11 to 14 April—in their fight for a 35.3% pay uplift.1GPs at the conference passed a three part motion in full that instructed the BMA’s GP committees of the four UK nations to take a similar approach to achieve full pay restoration for general practice, including considering industrial action.Proposing the motion, Mark Green, chair of West Berkshire LMC, said, “To make the…
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