{"id":284526,"date":"2026-02-06T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284526\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:56:07","slug":"mental-health-main-issue-behind-community-nhs-absences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/284526\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health &#8216;main issue&#8217; behind community NHS absences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Health bosses forecasted that the organisation could spend about \u00a31.5m more than planned on agency and bank staff by the end of the financial year, with one of the reasons being to cover for sickness absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also had about 122 job vacancies. Its workforce is made up of about 1,600 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trust leaders said they would continue to encourage staff to take the flu vaccine and were giving support to managers and employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also said a &#8220;deep dive&#8221; into the causes of neck, shoulder and back pain were being carried out by physiotherapists to develop videos to help prevent those issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A campaign will be launched later this year to encourage individuals to take regular breaks among ways to look after their health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bosses will also raise awareness of the benefits of flexible working and will make sure that staff plan and book annual leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health bosses forecasted that the organisation could spend about \u00a31.5m more than planned on agency and bank staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-284526","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\/284526","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=284526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}