"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."
"We talked with the government in good faith, keen for the health secretary to see that a deal that included options to gradually reverse the cuts to pay over several years, giving newly trained doctors a pay increase of just a pound an hour for the next four years. We hoped the government would see that our asks are not just reasonable but are in the best interests of the public and our patients and would also help stop our doctors leaving the NHS."
Resident doctors in England will strike for five consecutive days from 7am on 14 November to 7am on 19 November in a dispute over jobs and pay. Resident doctors make up about half of all doctors in the NHS and can have up to eight years' hospital experience or up to three years in general practice. The BMA says many second-year doctors are struggling to find jobs and that pay cuts and unemployment waste skills while patients wait and shifts go unfilled. Negotiations with the government sought gradual pay restoration, including a proposal of a £1-an-hour increase for newly trained doctors over four years, but talks failed to resolve the situation.
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