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June 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Fiona Macrae and Claire Ellicott
17:30 EST, 17 June 2012
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17:31 EST, 17 June 2012
Hundreds of the GPs likely to strike this week earn more than £250,000 and thousands are on salaries higher than the Prime Minister, it emerged tonight.
Latest figures show that 210 family doctors have an income before tax of at least a quarter of a million pounds and 4,170 have annual earnings higher than £150,000.
In contrast, David Cameron earns £142,500 a year.
Thousands of the striking doctors earn more than Prime Minister David Cameron (picture posed by models)
The NHS figures also show that in some areas, GPs are paid six times the amount of the average private sector worker.
It comes as thousands of doctors prepare to strike for the first time in almost 40 years over changes to their pensions.
More than a million patients will face disruption on Thursday when members of the British Medical Association refuse to treat patients unless their condition is life-threatening or urgent.
Some 79 per cent of the 17,561 family doctors who voted in the BMA’s ballot were in favour of industrial action.
Leading cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora is ‘violently against’ the strike
The BMA is furious at Government plans to make its members contribute more from their salaries into their pension pots and retire later.
But with some GPs retiring on annual pensions of £100,000 or more, and the new deal taking the average annual pension to around £68,000, critics have questioned the timing of the strike.
The BMA has insisted that patients will not be put at risk during the dispute and says it was ‘very reluctant’ to take action. It has pledged that emergency patients will be seen at hospital casualty wards.
But the day of action has already led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of cataract operations, hip and knee replacements and many more routine tests and scans.
In addition, 1.25million GP appointments will be postponed, including 400,000 involving the elderly and 140,000 for children.
Critics also warn that the strike will create a huge backlog that will have knock-on effects for the NHS for several weeks.
Pressure group Patient Concern said that British doctors are among the best-paid, and with the most generous pensions, in the world.
Joyce Robins, the group’s co-founder, said: ‘People who have been waiting months for operations won’t get them and whatever their condition is will get worse while they are waiting.’
Tory MP Chris Skidmore, who sits on the Health Select Committee, said that while GPs should be paid well, it stretches credibility that they strike over a pension deal that ‘most people could only dream of’.
He said: ‘The public won’t understand how they can justify that, particularly when it will risk patient safety.’
Yesterday Karol Sikora, one of Britain’s leading cancer specialists, told the Daily Mail he is ‘violently against’ the strike.
Professor Sikora said that the pension system needs to change, adding: ‘When the NHS was set up, doctors were living two or three years beyond retirement age. They are now living for 20 years. Something has got to give.’
He also questioned how committed doctors will be to Thursday’s strike.
Around half of the BMA members eligible to vote turned out for the ballot, with 84 per cent of the 52,250 votes in favour of industrial action.
But Professor Sikora said: ‘Most doctors are not going to do anything. Even though they have said they are going on strike, they are not going to do anything that will hurt patients.’
Health authorities say that they have ‘robust plans’ for ‘all types of contingencies’, and are urging patients with non-urgent conditions to contact NHS Direct, rather than their GP, and to stay away from AE unless they have a serious or life-threatening condition.
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I had a private consultation last week with a senior consultant – (the NHS waiting list was 6 months ! ) – he charged me £225.00 for 35 minutes.The reason the waiting list is so long of course is because he is so busy making money from The Private Sector !
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Oh yawn …here we go again with the usual round of medic bashing. I work a 55 hour week for my salary as a surgeon and it works out at approx 32 quid per week. I remove tumours from akward places and it took me 16 years to train to Consultant level. try and get a lawyer, grarage mechanic or plumber to work for you for that rate. This is becoming tedious.
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Call me Dave does not just earns £142,000 pa. He has perks like living rent free in no 10 and Chequers, gets free chauffered transport and private planes. If he is in any other jobs, HMRC will be calling that hidden taxable income.
Of course, he has to pay for his own country suppers but kitchen suppers will set you back a six figure sum.
So, it is not too bad a deal for an incompetent, u-turning, breaking promises , “we are all in this together” PM.
DM..you really need to stop turning the private and public sectors against each other. Whom do you think the public sector tendered out contracts to?
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The answer is easy – anyone who thinks drs’ jobs are easy , why dont you retrain and do the job yourselves- vacancies in general practice and hospital jobs are increasing as fewer medics are choosing this as a career in the UK,so you should be able to get a job (perhaps the job is not as easy as you all seem to think).
And by the way I and most of the drs I know are not striking,
Look at how many drs there are in the UK and try to report on what most of them earn for the hours they work, not just the very few “high flyers” – but I suppose that would not make such good publicity.
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I wouldn’t pay Camerloon out in washers so your headline is meaningless.
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GPs currently pay 28% of their income into the scheme , Consultants pay 14%. The scheme creates a £2billion surplus every year. I am lead to believe most other schemes have contributions of between 2-5% and are in deficit. This is why doctors are angry. It is nothing more than another raid on money which they have paid in good faith to be squandered by the Govt
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Jim Lamb , Queensland Australia, 18/6/2012 07:42 = ernm ,,, this is an age oild labour tac tic to get the unions to strike and say what a mess ! the fact is that labour let them increase their take home pay to dizzy hieghts while robbing tax payers for years and giving them nothing back … the unions represent well paid “public” servants hold the keys to labours coffers and the fact that all these GP’s earn staggering amounts of money AND YET EXPECT the tax payer to pick up the tab for their huge pensions is outragous to say the least as with any government OTHER then labour the unions will play up until labour are returned and the deals can begin again ..the only probloem is there are less and less tax payers in the private sector left to pick it up so they have to work till they drop while unionists get to retire at 50-55 remin you of anywhere on its knees right now ? greece maybe ? spain ?
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They can put forward all the arguments they like but no one will be convinced. Greed has blinded them.
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pnsions that most peopl could only dream of??? maybe those mot people would like to study for at least 7 years to be able diagnose and treat, make appropriate referrals, offer the right prescriptions, whilst undertaking additional raining throughout their career in order to kee up with the advances in medicine. these GPs are on the frntline and their decisions and diagnoses could mean the difference between life and death. You should be ashamd DM for your crusade against the public sector. if thes GPs went back to the private sector the cost to the country wouldbe ar, far greater than their pensions.
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It’s an insult to the nurses who work harder alongside the Doctors.
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