Junior Doctors in England to Stage Five Consecutive Day Walkout in November

Medical professionals in the UK are set to begin a five-day walkout next month, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay.

Walkout Information

The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will walk out for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November.

Junior physicians, who make up about half of all doctors in the National Health Service, are taking this action after unsuccessful talks with the health department.

Reasons Behind the Strike

Dr Jack Fletcher stated, “We did not want to reach this point. We have spent the last week in talks with government, pressing the health minister to end the crisis of unemployed physicians.”

“We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This cannot continue.”

He continued, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the health secretary to see that a agreement including options to slowly restore the cuts to pay over several years, providing newly trained doctors a raise of only £1 per hour for the coming four years.”

“We trusted the authorities would recognize that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help prevent our physicians departing from the health service.”

About Resident Doctors

Junior physicians have as much as eight years of experience working as a hospital doctor, based on their field, or up to three years in primary care.

Further information are expected soon.