Protecting NHS staff from contracting COVID-19 to keep services running has been a key part of national and local policies. Measures implemented include priority vaccination, frequent testing and personal protective equipment (PPE). There has been a national effort to ensure that the NHS workforce remains well to keep working during this difficult time. Looking at reasons for sickness absence as a percentage of all Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) days lost published by NHS digital October 2019 to October 2020, mental illness is the clear outlier, accounting for the largest burden of sickness absence in the NHS workforce [1]. This is the case from October 2019 to October 2020, other than April 2020, when it was surpassed by COVID-19 by 10 percentage points in the first wave of the pandemic [1]. Prior to the pandemic, poor mental health amongst the NHS workforce accounts for at least double the burden of illness leading to time off compared to the next category. Even since the pandemic, outside the peak month of April 2020, data demonstrate that mental illness accounts for the most sickness absence amongst the NHS workforce. Data from the second wave are yet to be published.

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我们应该保护 NHS 员工免受精神疾病的侵害，就像我们保护他们免受 COVID-19 的侵害一样

保护 NHS 员工免于感染 COVID-19 以保持服务正常运行一直是国家和地方政策的关键部分。实施的措施包括优先接种疫苗、频繁检测和个人防护装备 (PPE)。全国一直在努力确保 NHS 的劳动力在这个困难时期保持良好的工作状态。从 NHS 数字版 2019 年 10 月至 2020 年 10 月公布的所有全职当量 (FTE) 天数损失中，病假原因占所有损失的百分比，精神疾病是明显的异常值，占 NHS 劳动力中病假的最大负担。 1]。2019 年 10 月至 2020 年 10 月的情况就是如此，2020 年 4 月除外，当时在第一波大流行中被 COVID-19 超过了 10 个百分点[1]。疫情之前，与下一类别相比，NHS 工作人员的心理健康状况不佳至少是导致休假的疾病负担的两倍。即使自大流行以来，在 2020 年 4 月的高峰月份之外，数据也表明，在 NHS 工作人员中，精神疾病是因病缺勤的原因。第二波的数据尚未公布。