Strike on 14-19 November is part of escalating industrial action over pay and job insecurity
Doctors in England will go on strike for five consecutive days in November in a row over jobs and pay.
The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors would strike on five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November. Resident doctors, formerly known as junior doctors, make up about half of all doctors in the NHS.
Dr Jack Fletcher, the chair of the BMA’s resident doctors committee (RDC), said: “This is not where we wanted to be. We have spent the last week in talks with government, pressing the health secretary to end the scandal of doctors going unemployed.
“We know from our own survey half of second-year doctors in England 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.
