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Medical professionals in the UK are preparing to stage a five-day walkout next month, due to disputes regarding pay and employment.

Strike Details

The BMA stated 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 taking this action after failed negotiations with the government.

Causes of the Walkout

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

“Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This is a situation which cannot go on.”

He added, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the minister to see that a agreement offering solutions to slowly restore the cuts to pay over a number of years, giving 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 reasonable but are in the best interests of the public and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors departing from the NHS.”

About Resident Doctors

Resident doctors 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.

Further information will follow shortly.