Junior Doctors in the UK to Stage Five-Day Walkout in November

Medical professionals in the UK are preparing to stage a five-day walkout in November, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay.

Walkout Information

The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that junior physicians will strike for five days in a row from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am.

Junior physicians, who make up about half of all medical staff in the National Health Service, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the government.

Causes of the Walkout

Dr Jack Fletcher commented, “We did not want to reach this point. We have been negotiating for the past week with government, pressing the health secretary to resolve the crisis of doctors going unemployed.”

“We know from our own survey 50% of second-year physicians in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst millions of patients endure long waits for care and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This is a situation which cannot go on.”

He continued, “We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the health secretary to understand that a agreement offering solutions to slowly restore the cuts to pay over several years, giving newly trained doctors a raise of just a pound an hour for the coming four years.”

“We trusted the authorities would see 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 stop our physicians leaving the health service.”

About Resident Doctors

Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience working as a hospital doctor, based on their field, or as many as three years in primary care.

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