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FOI reveals 350,000 days were lost in the Welsh NHS last year due to mental health illnesses

Nearly 350,000 days of absence were recorded last year in the Welsh NHS due to mental health illness, new figures have revealed.

A Freedom of Information request submitted by the Welsh Conservatives revealed that anxiety, stress, depression and other unspecified psychiatric illnesses affected 7,945 staff members in 2015-16.

Reported by Wales Online. You can read the full story here. 

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