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Doctors in England to go on strike next month
Resident doctors in England will go on strike next month, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said.
The five-day strike, which will take place between 14 and 19 November, is part of escalating industrial action over jobs and pay. Resident doctors, previously called junior doctors, make up around half of all doctors in the NHS.
Dr Jack Fletcher, chair of the BMA's resident doctors committee, has called on Health Secretary Wes Streeting to "come forward with a proper offer on jobs, on pay". "This is not where we wanted to be," said Dr Fletcher.
"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." Dr Fletcher said that while the BMA wanted "to get a deal done, the government seemingly does not.
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