🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Stage Five-Day Walkout in November Medical professionals in England are set to stage a five-day strike next month, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay. Walkout Information The BMA announced that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November. Junior physicians, who make up nearly 50% of all medical staff in the NHS, are proceeding with the strike after failed negotiations with the government. Reasons Behind the Strike The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee commented, “We did not want to reach this point. We have been negotiating for the past week with officials, urging the health minister to resolve the crisis of doctors going unemployed.” “Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in England are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst countless individuals endure long waits for care and hospital shifts go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He added, “We negotiated sincerely, keen for the health secretary to understand that a agreement including options to slowly restore the pay reductions over a number of years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the next four years.” “We hoped the government would see that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the community and our patients and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the health service.” About Resident Doctors Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or as many as three years in primary care. More details will follow soon.