The latest sick day figures indicate an approximately 56% increase since 2019, when the NHS started categorising sick days by type. <\/p>\n
Back then mental health days averaged around 400,000 a month. <\/p>\n
The new figures take the total number of mental health-related sick days up to 3.6 million in the first half of this year.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the British Medical Association said: “This is the result of a workforce who have been struggling for years to look after patients in a health system that is under unrelenting, severe pressure.”<\/p>\n
The NHS acknowledged that the figures were far too high and that it was doing everything it could to address the issue. <\/p>\n
One spokesperson from the health service commented: \u201cThe NHS is offering a range of mental health and wellbeing support to help staff stay well and feel supported at work, which should also help bring sickness absence down to more sustainable levels.”<\/p>\n
Labour continues to face a raft of challenges relating to the creaking health service.<\/p>\n
The NHS waiting list now stands at 7.41 million, despite a \u00a325bn cash injection by the Chancellor.<\/p>\n
One in 10 NHS appointments and operations are now being carried out by the private sector in an attempt to address the wait times and more than half a million British patients left the UK for healthcare overseas last year.<\/p>\n
This November, NHS doctors are set to strike again. This will be the 13th strike in the long-running pay dispute since March 2023 and is expected to cause significant disruption, particularly in hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest sick day figures indicate an approximately 56% increase since 2019, when the NHS started categorising sick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-119009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}