Doctors in the UK are preparing to begin a five-day strike in November, in protest over jobs and pay.
The BMA stated that junior physicians will walk out for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to November 19 at 7am.
Junior physicians, who make up about half of all medical staff in the National Health Service, are proceeding with the strike after failed negotiations with the health department.
Dr Jack Fletcher stated, “This is not where we wanted to be. We have been negotiating for the past week with officials, urging the health secretary to end the crisis of doctors going unemployed.”
“Our survey reveals 50% of second-year physicians in the UK are struggling to find jobs, their talents being unused whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment 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 minister to understand that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over a number of 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 fair but are in the interest of the community and our those we treat and would also help stop our doctors leaving the health service.”
Resident doctors have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, based on their field, or as many as three years in primary care.
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