Tens of thousands of appointments have been rescheduled due to strikes at the Mid and South Essex Trust since the end of 2022, new figures show.

The figures come as junior doctors voted to accept a government pay deal, bringing their long-running dispute to an end.

Analysis of NHS England figures shows a total of 29,827 appointments have been rescheduled due to industrial action at the Mid and South Essex Trust since December 2022 - all of these were in acute outpatient or inpatient settings.

Matthew Hopkins, Chief Executive of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said he was glad to see a pay deal reached.

He said: “We are pleased that an agreement has been reached so we can plan treatments and surgeries without the risk of disruption from industrial action, which is good news for our patients and staff.”

The figures showed that 12,021 working days were lost due to strikes.

These figures cover various parts of the NHS workforce including consultants, nurses and other occupations, who have also been on strike over the past two years – so not every cancelled appointment was with a junior doctor.

Across England, more than 1.5 million appointments have been rescheduled, with over a million working days lost.

Some trusts did not submit data for each round of industrial action.

On Monday, the BMA junior doctors committee in England accepted the Government’s pay offer, with 66% of junior doctors voting in favour of the deal.

Health secretary Wes Streeting called the deal a "necessary first step" to cutting waiting lists and reforming the health service.

He 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,