French surgeons descend on England to protest about pay

doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7501.1170-f

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Brad Spurgeon

Paris

French surgeons last week carried out a threat made last summer to visit England to protest about low pay and high insurance premiums after saying that the government failed to honour an agreement made last August.

Although nearly 2000 surgeons had been expected to take part in the protest trip (originally planned for September), in the end only 350 did. Led by a group called Surgeons of France, the surgeons spent four days at Pontin's holiday camp in Camber Sands, Sussex, where they planned a new …