Doctors in England to go on strike for five days in November - dates View Image

Doctors in England will go on strike for five days in November in an ongoing row over jobs and pay. The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors will strike on five consecutive days from 7am on November 14 to 7am on November 19.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting described the move as “preposterous” and accused the BMA of “blocking a better deal for doctors”.

Resident doctors, previously named junior doctors, make up around half of all doctors in the NHS .

Dr Jack Fletcher, chairman 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 un

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