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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Mental Stress

Recent figures reveal that thousands of Scottish NHS staff have been signed off work with mental health problems. 'A total of 8,540 staff were absent in 2013/14 - up 7% on the 7,975 signed off in 2012/13. .....The health board figures show that in 2013/14, 788 NHS staff were signed off for stress-related reasons for lengthy periods, of between three and six months.' (BBC News, 6 January) The badly under-funded NHS places a tremendous strain on the nerves of its workers and it leads to all sorts of mental stress. RD

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