The longest walkout by junior doctors yet will take place in July and last for five days in England due to pay.
Between Thursday, July 13, and Tuesday, July 18, at 07:00, there will be a strike.
Doctors' pay has not kept up with inflation, according to the British Medical Association (BMA), the union that represents them, and a government offer of a 5% raise was not "credible.".
The pay offer is deemed "fair and reasonable" by the government.
To make up for 15 years of rises below inflation, the BMA has requested a 35 percent increase.
Since the pay dispute started, junior doctors have gone on strike four times.
The BMA junior doctors committee's co-chairs, Drs. Robert Laurenson and Vivek Trivedi, declared: "We are announcing the longest single walkout by doctors in the history of the NHS, but this is not a record that needs to be written down.
The government can still stop our action by making a convincing offer to restore pay at the negotiating table. ".
Around half of all hospital doctors in England and a quarter of all doctors working in GP offices are junior doctors. In the UK, the BMA represents more than 46,000 junior doctors.
In Scotland, junior doctors have been given a new 14 point five percent pay increase over a two-year period as a result of negotiations with the Scottish government.
BMA Scotland announced that it would now consult its members on the offer after they decided to support strike action earlier this month.
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