One in three “sick notes” handed out by GPs are now for mental health problems, amid soaring levels of anxiety across Britain, official figures show. The new data – from the first such investigation across the NHS – reveals that in total, more than 5 million people are being signed off work every year. Mental…
The ‘Report, Remove, Rinse’ advice urges those hit by corrosive substances to contact the police, take off any splashed clothing and run burnt skin under cold water Witnesses to acid attacks are being told how to help victims, as the number of assaults with corrosive substances continues to rise. Victims can be left blind or severely disfigured, and…
A new NHS plan to create more medical school places, confirmed to start next year, will target students from disadvantaged backgrounds to make the medical workforce more diverse, the Government has said. The Department of Health announced in October it will fund up to an extra 1,500 medical training places in England a year by 2020…
Over a thousand extra doctors will be trained as part of the “biggest ever” expansion to the NHS’s medical workforce in England, health officials have said. An extra 1,500 doctors a year will be trained in the NHS by 2020 – boosting the current student doctor numbers of 6,000 by 25%, the Department of Health…
A ‘national shortage’ of qualified mental health nurses risks pushing critical services into crisis, campaigners have warned today as The Yorkshire Post reveals the scale of cuts to the region’s NHS workforce. Figures obtained via freedom of information requests to the region’s mental health trusts, responsible for providing health and social care services, show there…