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THOUSANDS of NHS staff are having to take days off sick as a result of stress, Labour will tell Health Secretary Alex Neil today.
Party health spokesman Neil Findlay is to raise the issue of the number of health workers ?taking time off sick because they cannot cope with the weight of their workload? in a Holyrood debate.
In the NHS Tayside area 24.5% of all sick days in 2012-13 were a result of stress-related conditions, Labour said.
The party added that last year more than 16% of sickness days in NHS Fife were for stress-related conditions, as well as 14.3% of sickness days in the NHS Lanarkshire region.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/scottish-nhs-staff-sick-with-stress-say-labour-1-3268790
Party health spokesman Neil Findlay is to raise the issue of the number of health workers ?taking time off sick because they cannot cope with the weight of their workload? in a Holyrood debate.
In the NHS Tayside area 24.5% of all sick days in 2012-13 were a result of stress-related conditions, Labour said.
The party added that last year more than 16% of sickness days in NHS Fife were for stress-related conditions, as well as 14.3% of sickness days in the NHS Lanarkshire region.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/scottish-nhs-staff-sick-with-stress-say-labour-1-3268790