{"id":88834,"date":"2026-05-07T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88834"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:26:15","slug":"how-nhs-staff-are-routinely-exposed-to-toxic-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/how-nhs-staff-are-routinely-exposed-to-toxic-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer staff exposed to toxic chemicals due to inadequate PPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA22C4Pk.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Doctor or nurse in white medical PPE suit puts on protective gloves, physician in hospital close-up. Concept of professional clinical care, uniform an\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cancer nurses\u00a0<a title=\"Revealed: Hidden scandal of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemical deemed the \u2018next asbestos\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/asbestos-nhs-staff-toxic-chemical-cancer-formaldehyde-b2876240.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">are being exposed to \u201chazardous\u201d medicines linked to an increased\u00a0<\/a>risk of miscarriage and infertility because NHS trusts are failing to give them vital PPE,\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em> can reveal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/cancer-staff-exposed-to-toxic-chemicals-due-to-inadequate-ppe\/ar-AA22BHpt?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69fcbbeb3caf45bf914478595c1b0849&amp;ei=42\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Cancer nurses\u00a0are being exposed to \u201chazardous\u201d medicines linked to an increased\u00a0risk of miscarriage and infertility because NHS trusts are failing to give&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gloves.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88836,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88834\/revisions\/88836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}