Resident doctors in England They began a six-day strike this Wednesday to demand better salary conditions, the largest strike recorded in the history of the British Public Health Service.
This group, which includes both recent graduates and veteran professionals studying higher degrees, will leave their duties from today at 7 GMT until the same time on January 9, in the longest strike since the founding of the National system of health (NHS, in English) in 1948.
These doctors, who have already carried out 28 days of work stoppage in 2023, voted in favor of returning to the picket lines after negotiations between the union broke down in December British Medical Association (BMA) and the Conservative Government of the United Kingdom.
The group, estimated at around 75,000 professionals in the region of England – half of the workforce, in the most populated territory of the country – rejected an offer of an increase made last summer of 8.8%, considering that they need 35% more to compensate for the loss of purchasing power since 2008.
The strike started will mainly affect scheduled consultationsmany of which have been canceled as staff concentrate on emergencies, which NHS managers call one of the busiest planned weeks of the year, after the festive period.