'A real risk' more NHS staff will be off work due to mental health
Nurses, doctors and other NHS staff have worked under incredible pressure for the last 2 years
We're hearing more NHS staff could be off sick due to the continuous pressure they are under impacting their mental health.
More than 1,900 members of staff are off sick at Leeds teaching hospitals trusts.
At the same time there's more than 600 covid patients in hospital across our region, that's a 60% increase on the previous week.
Paul Wood from the Royal College of Nursing in Yorkshire said:
"The longer term impact might be on their health, wellbeing and mental health. There are conversations now around post traumatic stress effecting staff who have been through absolutely horrendous experiences throughout the last 2 years.
"People will question why they're doing the job they're doing, if it's having that impact on them, at a time when staffing is so short, when they're not feeling valued and rewarded for what they do, so the immediate impact could be that we see a loss of staff."