Resident doctors in England will stage a four-day walkout in June, which will be the 16th round of industrial action in ongoing salary negotiations.
The walkout will start at 7 am BST on Monday 15 June until 6:59 am on Friday 19 June.
This decision came after a meeting earlier this week between the UK’s new Health Secretary James Murray and the British Medical Association (BMA). Murray took over from Wes Streeting in early May.
Murray has already revealed that he was not open to further salary negotiations, claiming that what the union was asking was “unrealistic and unaffordable”.
Currently, starting salaries for resident doctorsin England are a little over £40,000 (€46,150) according to the Department of Health and Social Care, while senior resident doctors get a basic salary of around £76,500 (€88,295).
