Up to 75 per cent of the medics in the area, formerly known as junior doctors, took part in the industrial action in a dispute over pay and training between November 14 and 19.
But members of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust board heard how the vast majority of services were delivered to patients during the five-day walkout.
Chief executive Jonathan Brotherton praised the forward planning and work of the teams in hospital sites across Birmingham and Solihull in during the action.
He said: “We’ve dealt with five days of industrial action by resident doctors.
“I’m really pleased to report that while we had a walkout rate of around 70-75 per cent from our resident doctors, we have managed to maintain almost all of our clinical activity for patients.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Taken from Google Street View.
“We had a high 90 per cent of delivery of what we would ordinarily would do so very minimal disruption to our patients.
“That has been the result of some incredible planning and flexibility and resourcefulness that our clinical and non-clinical teams have applied.
“It’s a really good reflection of another benefit of the operating model we have as an organisation whereby we have very strong local ownership from the teams that are running services and departments in their hospitals and community services.”
The British Medical Association union said the strike sent a strong message to the Government and warned they will be prepared to take further action in December if necessary.
It said: “The Government’s evidence to the doctors’ pay review body, the DDRB, amounts to substantive pay cut.
“This is on top of resident pay already being down by more than a fifth compared to 2008.
“Resident doctors won’t back down until the Government wakes up to the scale of the crisis over pay and lack of specialty training places.”
