🔗 Share this article Junior Doctors in the UK to Stage Five Consecutive Day Strike Next Month Medical professionals in England are preparing to stage a five consecutive day walkout in November, in protest over jobs and pay. Walkout Information The BMA announced that resident doctors will walk out for five days in a row from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am. Junior physicians, who constitute about half of all medical staff in the NHS, are taking this action after unsuccessful talks with the health department. Causes of the Walkout Dr Jack Fletcher stated, “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 unemployed physicians.” “Our survey reveals 50% of second-year physicians in England are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals endure long waits for care and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He continued, “We negotiated sincerely, keen for the minister to see that a agreement including options to slowly restore the pay reductions over several years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the next four years.” “We trusted the authorities would see that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the community and our patients and would also help prevent our physicians departing from the health service.” Who Are Resident Physicians? Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, based on their field, or up to three years in general practice. Further information will follow soon.