🔗 Share this article Resident Physicians in England to Launch Five-Day Walkout in November Doctors in the UK are set to stage a five-day strike in November, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will walk out for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am. Resident doctors, who constitute nearly 50% of all doctors in the National Health Service, are taking this action after unsuccessful talks with the health department. Causes of the Walkout The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee commented, “We did not want to reach this point. We have been negotiating for the past week with government, pressing the health secretary to end the crisis of doctors going unemployed.” “We know from our own survey 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 cannot continue.” He added, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the health secretary to understand that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over several years, providing newly trained doctors a raise of just a pound an hour for the next four years.” “We trusted the government would recognize that our demands are not just fair but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help stop our physicians leaving 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. More details are expected soon.