From The Daily Mirror:
Almost 11,000 doctors, nurses and support staff were off work daily with stress, anxiety and depression, the latest NHS Digital figures reveal.
The biggest proportion of sick days triggered by stress was among lower ranked managers for whom it was one in three.
Across the NHS stress now accounts for 24% of all days lost to sickness. Five years ago it was 19%.
Sara Gorton, of Unison, said: “The huge shortage of staff is the biggest problem and Brexit uncertainty isn’t helping."
Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Nobody move or lower ranked NHS managers will throw more sickies!
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What about the 60,000 of them on union facility time full time? I bet they aren't streesed.
NHS employs about 1m people. So about 1% are off sick at any given time. So that's about 3 sick days per year per person. Doesn't sound unusually high.
Lower ranked managers in the NHS are some of the laziest, most pointless people I've ever dealt with. They achieve almost nothing other than ticking some boxes and doing some lightweight admin.
If you removed them and told the nurses to run things like the district nurse service and gave them the cash to do it, they'd do a far better job. They have managers who are woeful at improving the service, woeful at running the schedule. Most of what they do is very basic admin, much of which should be more automated.
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