Junior doctors set to walk out in August

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Coming up, junior doctors are set to stage a fresh four day walkout in August, even despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying that there would be no more negotiations on the pay offer they put forward this year. Stay there to find out what dates you should be aware of, and find out just as to why this industrial action is planned to go ahead.

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00:00 The British Medical Association has said that junior doctors in England are to stage a four-day

00:05 walkout from August 11 to August 15.

00:08 This comes despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying earlier this month that there would

00:13 be no more negotiations on the pay offer put forward this year, which for junior doctors

00:18 ranges between 8.1% and 10.3%.

00:21 But the BMA has said it "is not for Rishi Sunak to decide when negotiations are over

00:27 without stepping into a room with the union."

00:29 It's reported that junior medics are looking for a return to the salary equivalent to what

00:33 they earned in 2008, which is equivalent to a 35% pay rise.

00:37 This walkout will be the fifth time junior doctors have taken industrial action amidst

00:41 their pay dispute with the government.

00:43 Dr Robert Lawrenson and Dr Vivek Trividi, the co-chairs of BMA's junior doctor council,

00:50 said it should never have gotten to the point where we needed to announce a fifth round

00:54 of strike action.

00:55 They went on to say, "Our message today remains the same."

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