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Pensioners protest Americanisation of NHS and downskilling of staff
Campaigners from the Merseyside Pensioners Association and Reclaim The NHS outside the General Medical Council in London

THE Merseyside Pensioners Association (MPA) toured medical bodies around London today protesting against the dismantlement of the NHS. 

Their first stop was the General Medical Council (GMC), the independent doctors’ regulator that will oversee physician and anaesthesia associates from December.

But the pensioners’ group described the medical associates as a “trojan workforce.”

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