🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Begin Five-Day Walkout in November Doctors in the UK are preparing to stage a five-day walkout next month, in protest over jobs and pay. Walkout Information The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that junior physicians will strike for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am. Junior physicians, who constitute about half of all medical staff 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 stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have been negotiating for the past week with government, urging the health secretary to resolve the scandal of unemployed physicians.” “We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their skills going to waste whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He continued, “We negotiated sincerely, keen for the health secretary to see that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over a number of years, providing recent graduates a raise of just a pound an hour for the coming four years.” “We trusted the authorities would recognize that our asks are not just fair but are in the interest of the community and our patients and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the health service.” About Resident Doctors Resident doctors have as much as eight years of experience practicing in hospitals, based on their field, or as many as three years in primary care. More details are expected soon.