Doctors in England will strike for five consecutive days in November over jobs and wages.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors will strike for five consecutive days from 7am on November 14 to 7am on November 19. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, make up about half of all doctors in the country. National Health Service.
Dr Jack Fletcher, chairman of the BMA's standing doctors' committee (RDC), said: “This is not where we want to be. “We have spent the last week in talks with the government, putting pressure on the health secretary to end the scandal surrounding doctors losing their jobs.
“We know from our own survey that half of second-year doctors in England are struggling to find work, their skills being 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 to ensure that the Health Secretary saw this deal, which included options to phase out pay cuts over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay rise of just a pound an hour over the next four years.
“We hoped the government would see that our requests were not only reasonable, but were in the interests of the public and our patients, and would help stop our doctors leaving the NHS.”
Resident doctors have up to eight years of experience as a hospital doctor, depending on the specialty, or up to three years of general practice.
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