🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Begin Five Consecutive Day Walkout in November Doctors in the UK are preparing to begin a five consecutive day strike in November, in protest over jobs and pay. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am. Resident doctors, who constitute about half of all doctors in the NHS, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the government. Causes of the Walkout The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have spent the last week in talks with officials, pressing the health minister to resolve the scandal of unemployed physicians.” “We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals remain vacant. This is a situation which cannot go on.” He continued, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the health secretary to see that a agreement including options to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over several years, giving recent graduates a raise of just a pound an hour for the next four years.” “We hoped the authorities would see that our demands are not just fair but are in the best interests of the community and our those we treat and would also help stop our doctors departing from the NHS.” About Resident Doctors Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, depending on their specialty, or up to three years in general practice. More details will follow soon.