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The everyday work pressures experienced by nurses and midwives is having a significant impact on their mental wellbeing and the care they are able to give their patients.
This is according to a report published by the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), the RCN Foundation and Birkbeck, University of London, which found nurses and midwives are at considerable risk of stress, burnout and poor mental health because of the demands of their role and linked factors including staffing shortages and resourcing issues.
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