Pulse believes the Government must act to drop any plans to compulsorily increase GPs' retirement age from 60 to 65 - see how we've run the campaign and how our readers have responded.
 Use Pulse’s template to make your voice heard over the Government's proposed changes to the NHS pension |
 LMC leaders have narrowly backed moves for disengagement from clinical commissioning to be included in any industrial action on the Government's pensions reforms. |
 Exclusive GPs who take industrial action over pensions should be prepared to have their pay docked by primary care organisations, and could risk contractual action or even contract termination, BMA chair Dr Hamish Meldrum has warned. |
 GPs appear to be hardening in their support for industrial action, although not all of those who vote for it will join the proposed day of action themselves, a Pulse survey reveals. |
Exclusive The GMB trade union is to ballot BMA staff on a possible strike from next Monday – and could time a walkout to coincide with the BMA’s own ‘day of action’ to protest the Government’s pensions reforms.
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 Pressure group Remedy UK has announced it is to close with immediate effect, just days after calling on BMA members to reject the plans for industrial action over pensions. |
Exclusive The Labour Party will support the proposed industrial action by GPs over pensions so long as measures are taken to prevent it damaging patient care, Pulse can reveal. |
Exclusive BMA Council members will insist on a minimum turnout as well as a Yes vote before agreeing that the pensions ballot should trigger industrial action.
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 Watch Richard Hoey and Dr Peter Swinyard hand over Pulse's petition, signed by over 1,700 GPs, at Downing Street. |
GPs have warned ministers they must rethink plans to renegotiate the profession's pension rights, as Pulse delivered a petition to the Prime Minister with the names of almost 1,700 GPs. |
 The BMA is in a tight spot. The sharks are circling and have already taken a bite out of our pension. |
 I couldn’t agree more with your editorial about the BMA’s handling of the pensions dispute |
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I am one of the forty-somethings who have been in this job long enough to have laid down roots, but not long enough to avoid having my pension promises shattered. |
 Obviously a completely free market – as many in the Conservative party would like – is incompatible with the NHS being free at the point of use, and this would condemn the Tories to electoral failure. |
 Altruism, and Dr Andrew Mimnagh’s wish to protect patient care, are admirable. |
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I do not believe for one minute that anyone will actually read this or will take any notice of this letter. Indeed, in responding I may become just another statistic for your numerical manipulators to use in accusing GPs of greed and to bash us further. |
 I do not understand the defeatist attitude that seems to pervade the BMA negotiations over the proposed rise in pensions. |