🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Begin Five Consecutive Day Walkout in November Medical professionals in the UK are set to stage a five-day strike in November, due to disputes regarding pay and employment. Strike Details The BMA announced that junior physicians will strike for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am. Resident doctors, who make up about half of all medical staff in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike after failed negotiations with the health department. 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 officials, pressing the health minister to end the crisis of doctors going unemployed.” “We know from our own survey 50% of second-year physicians in England are facing unemployment, their skills going to waste whilst millions of patients endure long waits for care and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He continued, “We negotiated sincerely, keen for the health secretary to see that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over a number of years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the next four years.” “We trusted the authorities would see that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the public and our patients and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the health service.” Who Are Resident Physicians? Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, depending on their specialty, or as many as three years in primary care. More details will follow shortly.