NHS: Sick Leave
(asked on 23rd February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many sick days were taken by NHS (a) nurses, (b) midwives, (c) doctors and (d) ambulance staff in each of the last 12 months.
The number of sick days taken by NHS nurses, midwives, doctors and ambulance staff in each of the last 12 months for which data is available, is set out in the tables below.
| Qualified nursing and health visiting staff | Qualified Midwives | ||||
| Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Days Available | FTE Days Sick | Absence Rate | FTE Days Available | FTE Days Sick | Absence Rate |
November 2013 | 8,682,115 | 401,372 | 4.6% | 652,946 | 29,740 | 4.6% |
December 2013 | 8,989,853 | 437,005 | 4.9% | 676,191 | 33,810 | 5.0% |
January 2014 | 8,985,841 | 438,655 | 4.9% | 675,487 | 34,436 | 5.1% |
February 2014 | 8,144,538 | 379,562 | 4.7% | 609,741 | 29,420 | 4.8% |
March 2014 | 9,043,453 | 397,662 | 4.4% | 674,823 | 30,122 | 4.5% |
April 2014 | 8,722,491 | 379,368 | 4.3% | 652,169 | 29,117 | 4.5% |
May 2014 | 9,025,905 | 381,537 | 4.2% | 675,363 | 30,013 | 4.4% |
June 2014 | 8,725,128 | 374,928 | 4.3% | 653,689 | 29,004 | 4.4% |
July 2014 | 8,993,871 | 395,926 | 4.4% | 673,369 | 30,809 | 4.6% |
August 2014 | 8,963,577 | 391,667 | 4.4% | 672,360 | 29,854 | 4.4% |
September 2014 | 8,608,232 | 392,508 | 4.6% | 640,752 | 30,247 | 4.7% |
October 2014 | 9,061,051 | 434,049 | 4.8% | 675,857 | 34,141 | 5.1% |
Hospital and Community Health Services Doctors (HCHS) | Qualified ambulance staff | Support to ambulance staff | ||||||
FTE Days Available | FTE Days Sick | Absence Rate | FTE Days Available | FTE Days Sick | Absence Rate | FTE Days Available | FTE Days Sick | Absence Rate |
3,125,774 | 39,269 | 1.3% | 538,524 | 30,038 | 5.6% | 209,625 | 12,614 | 6.0% |
3,228,339 | 40,695 | 1.3% | 556,161 | 37,664 | 6.8% | 218,637 | 14,800 | 6.8% |
3,223,634 | 42,673 | 1.3% | 555,012 | 38,980 | 7.0% | 226,899 | 15,311 | 6.7% |
2,907,821 | 38,528 | 1.3% | 501,115 | 34,667 | 6.9% | 206,107 | 13,847 | 6.7% |
3,220,233 | 40,197 | 1.2% | 553,149 | 36,481 | 6.6% | 228,666 | 14,760 | 6.5% |
3,060,076 | 35,926 | 1.2% | 532,764 | 35,197 | 6.6% | 221,708 | 13,970 | 6.3% |
3,170,484 | 37,722 | 1.2% | 550,018 | 36,625 | 6.7% | 228,952 | 13,490 | 5.9% |
3,062,997 | 36,799 | 1.2% | 530,113 | 34,441 | 6.5% | 222,978 | 12,908 | 5.8% |
3,157,602 | 39,123 | 1.2% | 546,505 | 34,976 | 6.4% | 231,461 | 14,619 | 6.3% |
3,215,362 | 32,563 | 1.0% | 546,409 | 36,331 | 6.6% | 232,643 | 14,204 | 6.1% |
3,103,249 | 34,316 | 1.1% | 529,348 | 34,585 | 6.5% | 228,321 | 13,896 | 6.1% |
3,255,724 | 39,023 | 1.2% | 550,668 | 37,513 | 6.8% | 239,270 | 14,462 | 6.0% |
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Notes:
1. While lower sickness absence figures, in general, indicate lower levels of sickness absence it should be noted that lower figures can also indicate under reporting of sickness absence.
2. Data presented is Full Time Equivalent Days Lost to Sickness Absence including non-working days.
3. Hospital and Community Health Services Doctors includes locums
Data Quality:
The Health and Social Care Information Centre seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses.