NHS resident doctors outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, as thousands of resident doctors go on strike across England in a dispute over pay, November 14, 2025
THE resident doctors’ strike showed no sign of resolving as it entered its fourth day today.
Thousands across England walked out for five days on Friday in a dispute over pay, the 13th strike by doctors since March 2023.
British Medical Association resident doctors committee chair Dr Jack Fletcher had said the government could have stopped the strike with a “decent offer” on pay and jobs and a “deal that values doctors.”
But Health Secretary Wes Streeting instead accused them of “inflicting pain and misery on patients” and holding them to ransom by going on strike.
The last doctors’ strike in July is estimated to have cost the health service £300 million.
More than 54,000 procedures and appointments needed to be cancelled or rescheduled, despite the NHS maintaining 93 per cent of planned activity.
Doctors’ pay remains about a fifth lower in real-terms than its value in 2008, the union says.
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