Postgraduate doctors and Consultants planned industrial action – 11 – 15 August & 24/25 August
The British Medical Association is taking industrial action across the UK as part of its dispute over pay and conditions with the Government.
Both Postgraduate Doctors (often referred to as Junior Doctors) and Consultants, the most senior grade of hospital doctor, will be taking action over the coming weeks
Postgraduate Doctors will strike from Friday (11 August) until Tuesday (15 August). Consultants will take industrial action on the Thursday 24 August and Friday 25 August.
This will mean some of our services, such as outpatient clinics and elective procedures, will be affected during this time and in the days before and after.
We will be contacting anyone whose care will be affected.
If you do not hear from us, please attend your appointment as planned.
As part of our efforts to do everything we can to minimise the impact on patients, we may have to reschedule your appointment or procedure at short notice. If we have to do this, we are very sorry and will do everything we can to rearrange your care as soon as possible.
Our teams across our Children’s and Women’s hospitals and in our Mental Health Services, have worked hard to make sure our emergency and urgent services remain there for our women, children and young people and are safe.
The industrial action does mean our Emergency Department, whilst safe, will have reduced staff numbers, which may mean longer waits for non-emergency or urgent patients.
We will continue to review and update our plans and provide updates when available.
Although pay levels are a matter between national trade unions and the Government, we hope a way forward can be found soon.
BWC values and recognises the importance of good pay and is grateful every day for the hard work of all our colleagues.