English GPs to stage industrial action over 1.9% budget increase

Experts warn that first collective action in 60 years could have damaging knock-on effect on rest of health system

GPs in England are to stage industrial action for the first time in 60 years amid a row over funding, a move that experts have warned could have a catastrophic effect on the entire healthcare system.

In a ballot run by the British Medical Association (BMA), family doctors voted in favour of taking collective action in protest at the previous government increasing their budget by only 1.9% this year. Continue reading...


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