22 January 2019

The Auditor General says £164.4m was spent in 2016/17 alone and has called for strong leadership to manage the situation. It has been highlighted that skill shortages among staff, increases in patient demand, and the rising levels of sickness absence in the NHS have contributed to the situation, and that 82% of agency spend so…

Legal mental health charity LawCare received its highest ever number of helpline calls from lawyers in 2018, with calls about bullying and harassment nearly doubling. The charity dealt with 932 calls in 2018 from 624 callers, a 5% increase on the number of calls in 2017. The most common reason for calling was stress (26%),…