{"id":157584,"date":"2015-06-08T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T16:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=157584"},"modified":"2015-06-08T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T16:46:43","slug":"senior-bma-doctors-given-secret-pay-rise-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/senior-bma-doctors-given-secret-pay-rise-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Senior BMA doctors given secret pay rise in UK&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Confidential documents have revealed staggering secret pay hikes of up to 137% for senior members of the UK\u2019s doctors\u2019 union, the British Medical Association (BMA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The BMA papers show how the doctors\u2019 union awarded its senior figures pay rises of up to 137% and doubled its leader\u2019s salary to \u00a3172,000 at a time, causing anger among other members.<\/p>\n<p>The astounding figures given to seven key BMA representatives have been condemned and described as \u201cextraordinary, over the top and unjustified\u201d by other doctors and British politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The BMA\u2019s council chairman and main spokesman, Mark Porter has benefited most from the pay rises which saw his salary rise 94% from \u00a388,320 last year to \u00a3171,692. The BMA chair in Scotland, Peter Bennie saw the biggest pay rise with 137% increase from \u00a332,305 to \u00a376,431 while Philip Banfield in Wales received a 99% increase from \u00a331,500 to \u00a362,631.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/06\/08\/414894\/UK-BMA-doctors-secret-pay-rise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confidential documents have revealed staggering secret pay hikes of up to 137% for senior members of the UK\u2019s doctors\u2019 union, the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMA papers show how the doctors\u2019 union awarded its senior figures pay rises of up to 137% and doubled its leader\u2019s salary to \u00a3172,000 at a time, causing anger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-157584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}