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Junior Doctors: Industrial Disputes

Question for Department of Health

UIN 27993, tabled on 23 February 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when his Department expects hospitals to catch up with any backlog caused by the junior doctors' strike on 12 January 2016.

Answered on

1 March 2016

The National Health Service is making every effort to reschedule treatment as quickly as possible and according to clinical priority for those patients whose operations or appointments were cancelled as a result of the industrial action on 12 January 2016.