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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant

Half of NHS trusts providing or planning food banks for staff

A mural in Bristol by street artist SledOne shows NHS nurses queuing in front of a food bank while prime minister Rishi Sunak claps.
A mural in Bristol by street artist SledOne shows NHS nurses queuing in front of a food bank while prime minister Rishi Sunak claps. Photograph: Simon Chapman/LNP

More than half of NHS trusts and health boards are either providing or planning food banks for staff, new research suggests, as the cost of living soars.

In a survey that lays bare the catastrophic impact that the rising cost of food, energy and housing is having on health workers, NHS Charities Together and the Observer have found that thousands of NHS staff – including nurses – are already seeking help from food banks, with numbers expected to rise in the coming months.

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