🔗 Share this article Junior Doctors in England to Launch Five Consecutive Day Strike in November Medical professionals in the UK are preparing to begin a five-day walkout in November, in protest over jobs and pay. Walkout Information The BMA stated that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November. Resident doctors, who constitute nearly 50% of all doctors in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike 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 been negotiating for the past week with government, pressing the health minister to end the scandal of doctors going unemployed.” “Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in England are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals endure long waits for care and shifts in hospitals remain vacant. This is a situation which cannot go on.” He continued, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the minister to understand that a agreement including options to slowly restore the pay reductions over a number of years, giving newly trained doctors a raise of only £1 per hour for the coming four years.” “We hoped the authorities would see that our asks are not just fair but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help stop our physicians departing from the health service.” About Resident Doctors Resident doctors have as much as eight years of experience working as a hospital doctor, based on their field, or up to three years in primary care. Further information will follow shortly.