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A total of 33,034 acute outpatient and inpatient appointments at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust had to be rescheduled due to industrial action from December 2022 onwards. According to NHS England data, 18,508 shifts were not attended due to striking. Nationally, more than 1.
5 million appointments had to be rescheduled with more than one million working days lost. In June, the trust said it would "only reschedule appointments and procedures where necessary". The most recent spate of strikes by junior doctors, of which there were 11 over 18 months, has now ended following a government pay offer which will see the consultants' salaries rise by between.
.. Lucy Hunt.
