🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in the UK to Launch Five Consecutive Day Strike in November Doctors in England are set to stage a five consecutive day walkout next month, in protest over pay and employment. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that junior physicians will walk out for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November. Junior physicians, who make up nearly 50% of all doctors in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike after failed negotiations with the health department. Causes of the Walkout The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have spent the last week in talks with government, urging the health secretary to resolve the crisis of unemployed physicians.” “Our survey reveals 50% of second-year physicians in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He added, “We talked with the government in good faith, hoping the minister to understand that a deal including options to gradually reverse the pay reductions over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the coming four years.” “We trusted the authorities would recognize that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the best interests of the community and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the health service.” About Resident Doctors Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or as many as three years in primary care. More details are expected soon.