Resident Doctors in the UK to Stage Five-Day Walkout Next Month

Doctors in the UK are set to begin a five consecutive day strike in November, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay.

Walkout Information

The BMA announced that resident doctors will strike 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 medical staff in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike after unsuccessful talks with the government.

Causes of the Walkout

The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee stated, “We did not want to reach this point. We have spent the last week in talks with officials, urging the health minister to end the crisis of unemployed physicians.”

“Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst millions of patients endure long waits for care and hospital shifts remain vacant. This cannot continue.”

He added, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the health secretary to understand that a agreement offering solutions to slowly restore the cuts to pay over a number of years, providing newly trained doctors a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the coming four years.”

“We trusted the authorities would see that our asks are not just fair but are in the best interests of the public and our patients and would also help prevent our doctors departing from the NHS.”

About Resident Doctors

Resident doctors 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.

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