🔗 Share this article Junior Physicians in the UK to Launch Five Consecutive Day Walkout in November Doctors in England are set to begin a five-day strike next month, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay. Walkout Information The BMA stated that resident doctors will walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am. Resident doctors, who make up nearly 50% of all medical staff in the NHS, are proceeding with the strike after failed negotiations with the health department. Causes of the Walkout Dr Jack Fletcher stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have been negotiating for the past week with officials, pressing the health secretary 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 talents being unused whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. 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 several years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the next four years.” “We hoped the government would recognize that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the public and our patients and would also help prevent our physicians 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.