More than 30,000 hospital appointments have been cancelled in just under two years due to strikes.

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 3.71 and 5.05 per cent.

Doctors starting NHS foundation training will receive a base pay of £36,600, an increase from £32,400. A full-time doctor entering speciality training will now earn £49,900, up from £43,900.

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “We inherited a broken NHS, the most devastating dispute in the health service’s history and negotiations hadn’t taken place with the previous ministers since March.

"Things should never have been allowed to get this bad. That’s why I made ending the strikes a priority and we negotiated an end to them in just three weeks.

"I am pleased that our offer has been accepted, ending the strikes ahead of looming winter pressures on the NHS."

Dr Vivek Trivedi, co-chairman of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors' committee, told BBC Breakfast: "This is the first step towards restoring pay, which is all that doctors have wanted since the beginning of this campaign.

"As you’ll know, we’ve had a huge pay cut since 2008, but this marks a change in that trajectory.

"Doctors who were being paid just over £15 an hour before this offer will now be paid a little over £17 an hour, so it does mark an improvement, but the journey is not over."

The University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust has been approached for comment.