{"id":28156,"date":"2021-03-24T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=28156"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T10:35:03","slug":"nhs-workers-need-sensitive-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=28156","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098NHS workers need sensitive support\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite, which represents over 100,000 workers in the NHS, has today (March 24) called for maximum sensitivity and full consultation with unions to deal with the mental health challenges many health workers are facing as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Unite made its comments following a report produced by the NHS Confederation, which represents NHS organisations, that\u00c2\u00a0called for \u00e2\u20ac\u0098local leaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to ensure staff have \u00e2\u20ac\u0098decompression time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to deal with the effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s research has revealed that workers across the whole of the NHS including porters, cleaners, paramedics, nurses and doctors are suffering from increased mental health issues including depression, anxiety and in extreme cases post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as a result of the pandemic,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer Jackie Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAll workers need the appropriate help and support to recover from their experiences and it is essential that employers treat these challenges with the maximum amount of sensitivity. Every worker has been affected differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe NHS Confederation is recommending that \u00e2\u20ac\u0098local leaders\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 take the initiative on mental health \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it is absolutely critical to guarantee workers buy in that this is done in full consultation with the relevant NHS unions.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Barkley Sumner <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite, which represents over 100,000 workers in the NHS, has today (March 24) called for maximum sensitivity and full consultation with unions to deal with the mental health challenges many health workers are facing as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[1295,404,80],"wps_subtitle":"Effects of coping with Covid have led to mental health challenges for many","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28158,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28156\/revisions\/28158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}