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Doctors in Italy go on strike for two days over new rules

GPs across Italy walk out in protest at working-hour rules and contract changes, with rallies planned in Rome, Milan, Naples and other cities. The union's national leadership has appealed to all GPs, whether or not they are SMI members, to join what it describes as a unified defence of the profession.

Doctors in Italy go on strike for two days over new rules

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GPs across Italy walk out in protest at working-hour rules and contract changes, with rallies planned in Rome, Milan, Naples and other cities.

The union's national leadership has appealed to all GPs, whether or not they are SMI members, to join what it describes as a unified defence of the profession.

SMI secretary general Pina Onotri also highlighted a parliamentary petition on reforming general pract...

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GPs across Italy walk out in protest at working-hour rules and contract changes, with rallies planned in Rome, Milan, Naples and other cities. The union's national leadership has appealed to all GPs, whether or not they are SMI members, to join what it describes as a unified defence of the profession. SMI secretary general Pina Onotri also highlighted a parliamentary petition on reforming general pract...

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Italy's family doctors are staging a two-day strike on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 September, in a protest called by the Italian Doctors' Union (Sindacato Medici Italiani, SMI) against a partial agreement on Case della Comunità, the community health centres at the heart of Italy's post-pandemic primary care reform.

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