HOSPITAL bosses in Gloucestershire say the care they provide is the same standard on every day of the week.
It comes after researchers at Imperial College London said people who have surgery later in the week are more likely to die.
They looked at more than four million elective procedures conducted in NHS hospitals in England between 2008 and 2011.
They found the mortality rate was lowest for patients having operations on Monday and increased for each subsequent day of the week.
A Gloucestershire Hospitals spokesman said: "We would like to reassure our patients who may read the national coverage that patient care and safety is our absolute priority and we monitor patient outcomes very carefully.
"Our patients receive the same high standard of clinical and post-operative care at weekends as they would at any other time.
"Indeed the number of patients who die following elective surgery is so low, even at a Trust of our size, that it would not be possible to identify any trends regarding the days of the week."
In 2012/13 it recorded 30 deaths following 41,125 elective surgical procedures.
The spokesman added: "Wards are staffed with nurses on weekends as they would at week days and diagnostics, such as pathology and radiography are operational 7 days a week."
He said consultant surgeons also visit their post-operative patients on weekends to check process.