🔗 Share this article Junior Doctors in England to Begin Five-Day Walkout in November Doctors in England are preparing to stage a five-day walkout in November, in protest over pay and employment. Strike Details The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that resident doctors will walk out for five days in a row from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November. Junior physicians, who make up nearly 50% of all medical staff in the NHS, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the government. Reasons Behind the Strike Dr Jack Fletcher stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have spent the last week in talks with government, urging the health secretary to end the crisis of unemployed physicians.” “We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in England are facing unemployment, their talents being unused whilst millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This cannot continue.” He added, “We negotiated sincerely, keen for the health secretary to see that a agreement offering solutions to slowly restore the pay reductions over several years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the coming four years.” “We trusted the authorities would recognize that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the best interests of the community and our those we treat and would also help prevent our physicians departing from the health service.” 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 primary care. Further information will follow shortly.