🔗 Share this article Junior Physicians in the UK to Stage Five Consecutive Day Walkout Next Month Doctors in England are set to stage a five-day walkout in November, in protest over jobs and pay. Strike Details The BMA announced that resident doctors will walk out for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November. Resident doctors, who constitute nearly 50% 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, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have spent the last week in talks with government, urging the health secretary to end the crisis of unemployed physicians.” “We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in the UK are facing unemployment, their talents being unused whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This is a situation which cannot go on.” He continued, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the minister to see that a agreement including options to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over several years, giving recent graduates a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the next four years.” “We hoped the government would see that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the best interests of the public and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors departing from the NHS.” Who Are Resident Physicians? Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, based on their field, or up to three years in primary care. Further information are expected soon.