🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Begin Five-Day Walkout Next Month Medical professionals in the UK are preparing to stage a five-day strike in November, in protest over pay and employment. Walkout Information The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will strike for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am. Junior physicians, who make up about half of all doctors in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike after unsuccessful talks with the health department. Causes of the Walkout Dr Jack Fletcher commented, “We did not want to reach this point. We have been negotiating for the past week with government, pressing the health secretary to resolve the crisis of doctors going unemployed.” “We know from our own survey 50% of second-year physicians in the UK are facing unemployment, their talents being unused whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He added, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the health secretary to see that a deal offering solutions to slowly restore the pay reductions over a number of years, providing recent graduates a raise of only £1 per hour for the coming four years.” “We hoped the government would see that our demands are not just fair but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help stop our physicians departing from the NHS.” About Resident Doctors Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, based on their field, or up to three years in primary care. More details will follow soon.