Doctors plan to walk off the job at several major public hospitals across Melbourne next week as their stoush with the state government over pay and conditions intensifies.

Thousands of doctors from across Victorian hospitals last week voted to take protected industrial action for the first time in 20 years in a push to secure better pay and a safer working environment.

It can now be revealed clinicians will walk off the job at public hospitals including the Royal Melbourne, the Royal Children’s and the Royal Women’s on August 13.

Staff at the affected hospitals have been asked to reschedule non-urgent medical appointments, amid warnings the industrial action could cause delays for outpatient visits.

The work ban involves members of the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation and will run from 12.30pm until 4pm next Thursday. Doctors will rally in Grattan Street in the city.

The doctors are demanding a 30 per cent pay rise over four years.

Australian Medical Association Victorian president Simon Judkins said doctors had spent a year trying to negotiate a better deal with the government.

“There’s a sense of complete disrespect,” Judkins said. “They [the state government] just don’t see it’s important to engage with the frontline doctors who are delivering care.”

“We’ve seen over the last few weeks so much stuff on social media about how proud the government is of our public hospitals ... but there is no recognition of the fact that there are hardworking doctors providing care 24 hours a day.”

Judkins stressed that patient safety would not be compromised and said doctors in emergency departments and other critical frontline areas would not take part in the work ban.

A meeting about the work ban held on Monday evening was attended by more than 815 doctors.

On July 29, after almost a year of failed negotiations with the state government, 97 per cent of doctors who returned ballots voted to take protected industrial action.

Other affected hospitals include the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, St Vincent’s Health Fitzroy and the Parkville Youth Mental Health Service.

Judkins said many doctors, particularly junior clinicians, were reporting soaring levels of fatigue, stress and burnout.

“They’re incredibly worried in those conditions about whether they might be prone to making errors,” he said.

“Everybody is under increasing stress, and we don’t have the resources, and therefore it’s opening up patients to increased risk.”

The industrial action will come two years after the state’s nurses and midwives secured a 28.4 per cent pay rise over four years, ending eight months of tense negotiations between their union and the then-Allan government.

Stephanie Davies, the Australian Medical Association’s doctor in training subdivision chair, said last week that doctors were taking the action to make hospitals safer for clinicians and patients.

“Doctors don’t want to take industrial action,” she said.

“We want to be doing what we trained to do – caring for our patients. But after a year of negotiations and repeated warnings about dangerous levels of fatigue, excessive workloads and workforce shortages, our members have made it clear that enough is enough.”

The doctors’ strike follows a spate of intense industrial action from thousands of Victoria’s allied health professionals, who are demanding a 36 per cent pay rise over three years, which they say is in response to a Fair Work Commission ruling that the sector has been historically undervalued due to gender.

Thousands of allied health professionals including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, podiatrists, social workers, sonographers and radiographers have walked off the job twice this year.

In another blow to the government, the state’s teachers, principals and education support staff have vowed to walk off the job for a third time next month over a protracted pay dispute.