Junior doctors in England announced plans to strike for five days in July on Friday, which has been described by their union as being the “longest single period of industrial action” in the history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS). The five-day walkout will take place between July 13 and July 18.

The union, the British Medical Association (BMA), cited pay cuts and workforce neglect as the reasons fueling the strike. They’re seeking a 35 percent pay raise. BMA argues that their working conditions have resulted in a decline in patient care, with 7.4 million people in the UK awaiting surgeries and procedures. A BMA survey found that junior doctors believe that their patients back their fight for fair pay. 82 percent reported they had found their patients supportive of industrial action.

Co-chairs of the BMA junior doctors committee Dr. Robert Laurenson and Dr. Vivek Trivedi said:

The NHS is one of this country’s proudest achievements and it is shameful that we have a Government seemingly content to let it decline to the point of collapse with decades of real-terms pay cuts to doctors driving them away.

BMA’s last strike action ended last week, marking the third month of the union’s industrial action. In Friday’s statement, Laurenson and Trivedi noted that they have not heard from Rishi Sunak or Steve Barclay to re-open negotiations following their collapse a month ago. Following last week’s strike action, Barclay maintained that the government’s offer—a 5 percent pay rise for this year and a cash sum for last year—is “fair” and “reasonable.”

This strike announcement follows similar strikes across the UK in several sectors, including airport security staff, and another railway worker strike announcement, which follows on from strikes at the beginning of the year.