Doctors based in England will strike for five days next month NHS

Doctors in England will strike for five straight days in November over a row over jobs and pay.

Resident doctors will strike for five consecutive days from 7am on November 14 to 7am on November 19, the British Medical Association (BMA) said. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, make up around half of all doctors in the NHS.

Dr. Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the Resident Doctors Committee at the Bahrain Medical Society, said: “This is not where we wanted to be. We spent the last week in talks with the government, pressuring the Minister of Health to end the scandal of doctors who have become unemployed.”

“We know from our own survey that half of second-year doctors in England are struggling to find jobs, and that their skills will be lost while millions of patients wait endlessly for treatment and hospital shifts go unfilled. This is a situation that cannot continue.

“We have spoken to the Government in good faith, keen for the Health Secretary to see that there is a deal that includes options to phase out pay cuts over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay rise of just £1 an hour over the next four years.

“We hoped that the government would see that our requests were not only reasonable, but that they were in the interests of the public and our patients and would also help prevent our doctors leaving the NHS.”

Resident doctors have up to eight years of experience working as a hospitalist, depending on their specialty, or up to three years in general practice.

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