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hello and welcome before we to those headline, the very latest, we were expecting the figures regarding the junior doctors strike in easter, the industrial action we were talking earlier to jim reed, he said we were going to get updated with the figures of operations and procedures and appointments that had to be cancelled. those have just appointments that had to be cancelled. those havejust come in. nearly 200,000 hospital appointments and procedures in england had to be rescheduled due to the strike by doctors between april 11 and 15. thatjust doctors between april 11 and 15. that just come to doctors between april 11 and 15. thatjust come to us from nhs england, so almost 200,000, 195,000 cancellations is the exact figure and at the peak of the action there were 27,361 staff not at work due to the industrial action. there s been a response from the nhs, national medical director, who said today s figure lay bare the collapse of the impact of industrial action unplan ....
Numbers coming in and the reflection right there at the end talking about unfortunately, the situation is likely to continue to worsen that is the junior doctor strike action which remains unresolved. you heard the hud secretary, steve barclay, talking about that, talking about potential new strikes and the unprecedented nursing action. the royal college of nursing by letting their members for further strike action and said they could be further strikes from nurses right up to christmas after they rejected the governments pay off or on friday. so, unprecedented in terms of the sorts of pressures from those various groups, the royal college of nursing and junior doctors. those are figures, jim reed, i spoke to him earlier in the programme and will talk to them in the next two figures to get more on that. those are the figures in the terms of the number of patients affected last ....