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.

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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.