Ealing Hospital has promised it will be able to cope with patient demand despite a planned junior doctors strike on Tuesday (January 12).
Junior doctors across the country, including at Ealing Hospital, are set to strike for 24 hours from 8am providing only emergency care .
The strike is in response to contract changes, which junior doctors argue could reduce overall pay, proposed by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
But despite the reduction in staff, an Ealing Hospital spokesperson said that a strategy was in place to cope with patient demand but did say that some operations and appointments would have to be cancelled and rearranged.
The spokesperson added: "We have tried and tested plans in place to deal with a range of disruptions, including industrial action, and these plans will be put in place ahead of time.
"Patients in need of urgent and emergency care will continue to receive the treatment they need, when they need it.
"However, due to increased pressures on NHS services over this period, some elective operations and clinic appointments will unfortunately need to be postponed or rearranged."
The contract changes proposed by Mr Hunt, junior doctors argue, will reduce overall pay because contracts would no longer recognised anti-social hours as different to normal working hours.
Campaigners, including junior doctors, are expected to gather outside Ealing Hospital on Tuesday morning to voice their anger at the contract changes and in support of the strike.
Junior doctor Joel Schamroth, who started working at Ealing Hospital in August 2015, said that none of the doctors want to strike but that they have been given no choice.
The 28-year-old, who lives in North London, added: "I don't think anyone wants to strike but we have been forced into it.
"There is nothing else we can do, the government have bullied us in public and this is really the last straw."
