Hospital leaders’ requests to exempt resident doctors from striking will not be granted if trusts do not properly “incentivise” non-striking doctors to provide cover or if non-emergency work is continuing, the BMA has warned.
This comes after NHS England said that it expected hospitals to still provide 95% of all elective work during the upcoming five day strike. But BMA leaders said that resident doctors would not be “bullied or coerced” into staying at work as hospitals attempted to meet this difficult target.
Resident doctors in England are due to undertake five days of industrial action over pay and unemployment from 7 am on 14 November to 7 am on 19 November.1
This comes after a similar five day strike in July and follows talks between the BMA and government collapsing once again as …
