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Hospital doctors to strike for five days
Bristol Post
|October 24, 2025
DOCTORS in England will go on strike for five days in November in an ongoing row over jobs and pay.
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The British Medical Association (BMA) said resident doctors will strike on five consecutive days from 7am on November 14 to 7am on November 19.
Resident doctors, previously named junior doctors, make up around half of all doctors in the NHS.
Dr Jack Fletcher, 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.
This story is from the October 24, 2025 edition of Bristol Post.
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