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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

NHS staff lose half a million working days to mental health issues in a month

The equivalent of half a million working days in the NHS were lost due to anxiety and mental health issues in January, figures revealed on Thursday.

The number of lost days accounted for nearly a quarter (23.3 per cent) of overall absences, the statistics released by NHS Digital showed.

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