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Medical professionals in the UK are set to begin a five consecutive day walkout next month, due to disputes regarding jobs and pay.

Walkout Information

The British Medical Association (BMA) stated that junior physicians will walk out for five days in a row from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November.

Junior physicians, who make up about half of all medical staff in the NHS, are taking this action after failed negotiations with the health department.

Causes of the Walkout

Dr Jack Fletcher commented, “This 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.”

“Our survey reveals half of second-year doctors in the UK are facing unemployment, their skills going to waste whilst countless individuals wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This cannot continue.”

He added, “We negotiated sincerely, hoping the minister to see that a agreement offering solutions to gradually reverse the pay reductions over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of only £1 per hour for the next four years.”

“We hoped the authorities would see that our demands are not just fair but are in the best interests of the public and our those we treat and would also help stop our physicians leaving the health service.”

About Resident Doctors

Junior physicians have anywhere up to eight years’ experience practicing in hospitals, based on their field, or as many as three years in general practice.

More details will follow soon.