Doctors in the UK are set to stage a five-day walkout in November, due to disputes regarding pay and employment.
The BMA announced that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to 7am on 19 November.
Resident doctors, who constitute about half of all doctors in the NHS, are proceeding with the strike after unsuccessful talks with the health department.
The chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee commented, “We did not want to reach this point. We have spent the last week in talks with government, urging 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 millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This cannot continue.”
He continued, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the minister to understand that a agreement including options to slowly restore the cuts to pay over several years, providing recent graduates a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the next four years.”
“We hoped the authorities would see that our asks are not just fair but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help prevent our physicians departing from the health service.”
Junior physicians 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 are expected soon.
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