http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 02:00:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/doctors-strike-is-it-really-just-about-greed/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/doctors-strike-is-it-really-just-about-greed/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:10:33 +0000 Dr Sima Barmania http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25550 Today is the day where doctors (some not all) take industrial action over government planned pension reforms; its arrival set against a backdrop of great controversy and debate.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/21/doctors-strike-is-it-really-just-about-greed/feed/ 20 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:00:41 +0000 Dr Russell Razzaque http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25453 There are nearly twenty million people unemployed across Europe today; that’s over 10% of the entire working population. Against this backdrop, for doctors to go on strike for the first time in a generation in protest of pension arrangements that will still leave us with a retirement income in excess of £50,000 a year, looks callous from any perspective.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/the-doctors-strike-putting-the-medical-profession-in-the-firing-line/feed/ 13