Wednesday 28 August 2019

Mental health problems are the main cause of sick days for NHS staff, figures show -

Mental health problems are the main cause of sick days for NHS staff, figures show Mental health problems like stress, depression and anxiety are the most common reason NHS staff in England take sick days, analysis of NHS Digital statistics shows.

Workers took a total of 17.7 million days of sick leave between December 2017 and November 2018.

Of these, almost a quarter or 4.2 million were taken due to stress, anxiety, depression or other psychiatric illnesses. The Independent

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