{"id":78722,"date":"2025-11-14T15:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78722"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:23:54","slug":"doctors-in-england-begin-five-day-strike-over-pay-training-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/14\/doctors-in-england-begin-five-day-strike-over-pay-training-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors in England Begin Five-Day Strike Over Pay, Training Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of resident doctors in England launched a five-day strike on Friday over pay and a shortage of training posts their thirteenth walkout since March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The action, which began at 0700 GMT, involves doctors below consultant level, who make up about half of England\u2019s hospital workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemned the strike, accusing the British Medical Association (BMA), of \u201cchoosing confrontation over care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the government would not reopen pay talks, noting that junior doctors had already received a 28.9% pay rise over three years.<\/p>\n<p>The BMA insists doctors still need a 26% increase to restore real-terms pay lost over two decades, arguing that rising workloads and wage erosion have made conditions untenable.<\/p>\n<p>The union is also demanding more training posts, noting that over 30,000 applicants often compete for just 10,000 positions.<\/p>\n<p>The strike comes amid a prolonged cost-of-living crisis in the UK, which has triggered widespread industrial action across multiple sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Thousands of resident doctors in England launched a five-day strike on Friday over pay and a shortage of training posts their thirteenth walkout since March 2023. The action, which began at 0700 GMT, involves doctors below consultant level, who make up about half of England\u2019s hospital workforce. Health Secretary Wes Streeting condemned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78724,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78722\/revisions\/78724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}