Resident Doctors in England to Stage Five-Day Walkout Next Month

Doctors in the UK are preparing to stage a five-day walkout in November, due to disputes regarding pay and employment.

Walkout Information

The BMA announced that junior physicians will strike for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am.

Resident doctors, who make up about half of all doctors in the National Health Service, are taking this action after unsuccessful talks with the government.

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, urging the health minister to end the crisis of doctors going unemployed.”

“Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals endure long waits for care and shifts in hospitals remain vacant. This cannot continue.”

He added, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the minister to see that a agreement including options to slowly restore the cuts to pay over several years, providing recent graduates a raise of just a pound an hour for the next four years.”

“We trusted the authorities would see that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the best interests of the public and our patients and would also help prevent our physicians leaving the NHS.”

About Resident Doctors

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

Further information will follow shortly.