Thousands of appointments have been rescheduled due to strikes at North Cumbria Integrated Care (NCIC) since the end of 2022, new figures show.
Analysis of NHS England figures showed a total of 2,837 appointments have been rescheduled due to industrial action at NCIC.
Of these, 2,735 were in acute settings, while 102 were community appointments.
In addition, 2,908 working days were lost due to strikes.
These figures cover various parts of the NHS workforce – consultants, nurses and other occupations have also been on strike over the past two years.
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The figures come after junior doctors voted to accept a government pay deal, bringing their long-running dispute to an end.
The deal will see junior doctors’ pay rise by between 3.71 per cent and 5.05 per cent – an average of 4.05 per cent – on top of their existing pay award for 2023-24. This will be backdated to April 2023.
Health secretary Wes Streeting called the deal a "necessary first step" to cutting waiting lists and reforming the health service.
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