Doctors will stop providing non-urgent care on the 21st June in the first industrial action by the profession for nearly 40 years. The move comes after a majority of doctors voted in favour of action in a British Medical Association ballot of 104,000 members over pension changes. Emergency care would still take place as doctors did not want to put patients at risk. By targeting non-urgent care, elective operations such as knee and hip replacements will be cancelled. Doctors are among the best paid public sector employees - and as such they also have the most lucrative pensions. The average hospital consultant retiring today will enjoy a pension of £48,000 a year and a lump sum of over £140,000. Among public sector pensions being paid out, doctors account for two thirds of the top 1% of pay outs.

Pray: for no patient safety to be compromised on the 21st June.(Ps.41:1)

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