Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust boss Sir James Mackey has warned that the health service has a "very tired and very fatigued workforce" and that the psychological impact of continuous pressure on staff is telling.
Sir James, speaking on the Voices of Care podcast produced by Newcross Healthcare spoke about how the wider NHS workforce is - in many cases - struggling to cope. He said the mood of staff varied "team to team, department to department".
But he added: "The NHS has actually grown the workforce quite substantially last year as well. 9% nationally compared to pre-Covid times, but the workforce are under a huge amount of pressure and complexity. At this stage that we're at with Covid, actually it's very tired workforce and it's a very fatigued workforce.
