Doctors have decided to go ahead with their plans to go on a day’s strike on June 21 when they will not provide any non-essential service to the patients across the UK. The strike is to protest thepropsoed changes to their pension plans by the government.

The British Medical Association said that the decision to take industrial action, which is the first in almost 40 years, was not taken lightly. A majority of doctors had voted in favor of action in a BMA conducted poll over pension changes.

The doctors will stop regular medical care and only cater to the emergency cases over a dispute over changes to their pension plans proposed by the government. The doctors in the UK are warning of an industrial action to protest after they voted overwhelmingly in May 2011 against changes proposed by the government to their pension plans. The doctors have now ruled out a strike but said that they would only treat the most seriously ill patients over a given 24-hour period.

The members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted overwhelmingly against the government’s plans in a poll organised by the association to take a decision on the proposed changes. As many as 84 per cent of the BMA members opposed changes being put forward by the UK government.

BMA chairman Hamish Meldrum said, “We are taking this step very reluctantly, and would far prefer to negotiate for a fairer solution. There will be some inconvenience, but the last thing we want to do is harm patients when our real bone of contention is with the Government.”