Junior doctors' strike: How many ops were cancelled at your hospital?
The 24-hour junior doctors' strike saw operations cancelled and forced out-patient appointments to be rearranged across the Black Country. But how was your local NHS Trust affected – and how many operations were called off?
We have the full rundown of how the region's hospitals coped with the industrial action:
There were 15 procedures cancelled at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust – nine day-case procedures and six elective operations.
Forty-nine day-case procedures were cancelled at the Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust had four elective procedures cancelled.
Five surgeries were called off at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.
No operations were cancelled at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, which runs County Hospital in Stafford.
Amir Khan, Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Medical Director, said: "We worked with the British Medical Association and junior doctors locally to ensure that we maintained a safe level of services in Walsall."
Paula Clark, chief executive at the Dudley Group NHS Trust, said: "Emergency, urgent and inpatient care continued safely as normal. As a result of the industrial action, however, we had to reschedule 376 outpatient appointments and 49 day-case procedures."
Robert Courteney-Harris, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust medical director, said: "The Trust has tried-and-tested plans to deal with a range of disruptions, including industrial action."
Dr Roger Stedman, medical director at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Our priority was to maintain safe care for our patients."
