Family doctors in England have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking collective action for the first time in 60 years.
GPs will be able to choose from a series of actions set out by the British Medical Association (BMA) after 98.3% of more than 8,500 GPS in England who took part voted in favour.
One of the options would mean GPs limiting the number of patients they see each day to 25 - about a third fewer than normal.
They could also choose to stop performing work they are not formally contracted to do.
The last time GPs took collective action was in 1964 when family doctors handed in undated resignations to the Wilson government.
This led to reform including the Family Doctor Charter of 1965.
The health secretary had urged GPs not to punish patients.
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