🔗 Share this article Resident Physicians in England to Stage Five Consecutive Day Strike in November Medical professionals in England are set to begin a five-day strike next month, in protest over jobs and pay. Walkout Information The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will strike for five days in a row from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November. Junior physicians, who make up nearly 50% of all medical staff in the National Health Service, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the government. Causes of the Walkout 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 secretary to resolve the scandal of unemployed physicians.” “Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This is a situation which cannot go on.” He added, “We talked with the government in good faith, hoping the minister to see that a deal including options to slowly restore the pay reductions over a number of years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the coming four years.” “We trusted the government would recognize that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the public and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors departing from the NHS.” About Resident Doctors Junior physicians have as much as eight years of experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or as many as three years in primary care. Further information will follow soon.