🔗 Share this article Junior Doctors in England to Launch Five-Day Walkout Next Month Medical professionals in England are set to stage a five-day walkout next month, due to disputes regarding pay and employment. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will strike for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am. Junior physicians, who constitute nearly 50% of all doctors in the National Health Service, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the health department. Reasons Behind the Strike The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee stated, “We did not want to reach this point. We have spent the last week in talks with government, urging the health minister to resolve the crisis of unemployed physicians.” “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 shifts in hospitals remain vacant. This is a situation which cannot go on.” He added, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the minister to understand that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the pay reductions over a number of years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the coming four years.” “We trusted the government would see that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the NHS.” About Resident Doctors Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, depending on their specialty, or as many as three years in general practice. Further information will follow shortly.