Junior doctors are set to go on strike for the first time since 2016, but why are they taking industrial action, and could walkouts make NHS backlogs worse? FactCheck takes a look 👇
Junior doctors in England are set to take part in a 72-hour walkout after voting in favour of striking over pay.
There are 71,000 junior doctors in England, which represents about 30 per cent of all doctors, according to 2021 figures supplied by the BMA. BMA guidance during junior doctor strikes says the responsibility to provide safe patient care lies with the employer and that “large numbers” of doctors are expected to strike, so “it must be assumed that there will be none available to work”.
By 2019, the number of people waiting more than four hours on a trolley for a proper hospital bed was eight times higher than it had been in 2011, and even the number of people waiting longer than 18 weeks on the elective care waiting list rose nearly threefold between 2011 and 2019. During the 2016 strikes, NHS Trusts reported that 2,077 inpatient elective procedures were cancelled as a result of the industrial action, and 3,187 day cases cancelled.
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