🔗 Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Launch Five-Day Walkout in November Doctors in the UK are set to stage a five-day strike in November, in protest over pay and employment. Walkout Information The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that resident doctors will walk out for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November. Junior physicians, who make up about half of all medical staff in the NHS, are taking this action after unsuccessful talks with the government. 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, pressing the health secretary to resolve the crisis of doctors going unemployed.” “Our survey reveals 50% of second-year physicians in England are facing unemployment, their talents being unused whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts 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 including options to gradually reverse the pay reductions over several years, providing newly trained doctors a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the next four years.” “We hoped the government would see that our demands are not just reasonable but are in the interest of the public and our those we treat and would also help stop our physicians leaving the health service.” About Resident Doctors Resident doctors have as much as eight years of experience working as a hospital doctor, depending on their specialty, or up to three years in general practice. Further information will follow soon.