NHS Dental And Medical Staff Least Likely To Be Off Sick

Thu, 10 Dec 2009

Dental and medical staff working under the NHS are the least likely to be absent from work due to ill health, according to a new report.

The NHS Information Centre report, titled ‘Sickness Absence Rates In The NHS’, reveals that the sickness rate for medical and dental practitioners between April and June 2009 was on average just 1.1 per cent, compared to the average NHS staff sickness rate of 4.1 per cent.

The highest rate recorded was for healthcare assistants and other support staff (6.3 per cent), followed by ambulance staff (5.8 per cent) and nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff (5 per cent).

The study was the first to use sickness absence data from the Electronic Staff Record and follows the Department of Health's Boorman Review in 2009, which called for NHS organisations to have access to better benchmarks against which to measure themselves for levels of sickness absence.

Tim Straughan, chief executive of the NHS Information Centre, said: "This is the first time sickness absence data from the Electronic Staff Record has been published. It will be of great interest to managers whose role is to monitor staff wellbeing and sickness absence."

"These statistics will enable managers to get faster access to comprehensive data and to compare sickness absence levels in their organisation with others."

"They will also now be able to track sickness absence levels over time as recommended by the Boorman review."
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