{"id":90475,"date":"2026-06-10T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90475"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:30:13","slug":"thousands-of-nhs-staff-exposed-to-cancer-causing-chemicals-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/thousands-of-nhs-staff-exposed-to-cancer-causing-chemicals-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of NHS staff exposed to cancer-causing chemicals at work"},"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\"> < 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\/AA1RDMEt.img?w=768&h=430&m=6\" alt=\"Laboratories should use machines called downdraft benches to store tissue samples kept in formaldehyde (Channel 4 News)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nhs\" 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}\">NHS<\/a>\u00a0staff are being exposed to harmful levels of formaldehyde \u2013 a cancer-causing chemical that experts have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/nhs-cancer-nurses-chemotherapy-miscarriage-infertility-b2971284.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}\">likened to asbestos.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/thousands-of-nhs-staff-exposed-to-cancer-causing-chemicals-at-work\/ar-AA25e7DK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a29003b33544b3193a8ec396ba9d767&ei=48\">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>Thousands of\u00a0NHS\u00a0staff are being exposed to harmful levels of formaldehyde \u2013 a cancer-causing chemical that experts have\u00a0likened to asbestos.\u00a0 \u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Chemo.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475","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=90475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90476,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90475\/revisions\/90476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}