London NHS mental health trust in row over staff nursery closure

Staff claim the closure is adding to the stress levels of overstretched staff and makes a mockery of the trust’s commitment to improving its personnel’s working lives. Photograph: John Birdsall/Alamy

The NHS’s biggest mental health trust has been accused of undermining its own workforce’s wellbeing by shutting its staff nursery, despite it being a “lifeline” for them.

Dozens of doctors, nurses and other staff at the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) trust in the capital face having to find alternative childcare because of its decision.