đ Share this article Resident Doctors in England to Launch Five-Day Strike in November Medical professionals in England are preparing to stage a five-day strike next month, in protest over pay and employment. Walkout Information The British Medical Association (BMA) announced that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from November 14 at 7am to November 19 at 7am. Junior physicians, who constitute nearly 50% 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, âThis is not where we wanted to be. We have been negotiating for the past week with government, pressing the health secretary to end the scandal of doctors going unemployed.â âOur survey reveals 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 shifts in hospitals go unfilled. This is a situation which cannot go on.â He continued, âWe negotiated sincerely, keen for the minister to see that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of only ÂŁ1 per hour for the next four years.â âWe trusted the authorities would see that our asks are not just fair but are in the interest of the public and our those we treat and would also help prevent our doctors departing from the health service.â About Resident Doctors Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight yearsâ experience practicing in hospitals, depending on their specialty, or up to three years in general practice. More details are expected soon.