The number of medical staff in South Wales absent from work due to psychiatric illness has sharply increased in recent years, we can reveal.

“Worrying” levels of staff are now taking time off because of mental illnesses.

Figures obtained under freedom of information laws show staff absences for “anxiety, stress, depression and other psychiatric illnesses” at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board climbed from 1,154 in 2011-12 to 1,221 a year later.

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

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.