🔗 Share this article Junior Doctors in the UK to Stage Five-Day Walkout in November Doctors in England are preparing to stage a five consecutive day walkout in November, in protest over pay and employment. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am. Resident doctors, who constitute nearly 50% of all doctors 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 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 scandal of unemployed physicians.” “We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in the UK are facing unemployment, 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 negotiated sincerely, hoping the health secretary to understand that a deal including options to slowly restore the pay reductions over a number of years, providing newly trained doctors a raise of only £1 per hour for the next four years.” “We trusted the authorities would see that our demands are not just fair but are in the interest of the community 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 general practice. More details are expected shortly.