Title

NHS sickness absence rate pre-2009, by organisation

Last update

24 May 2016 24 May 2016

Next update

No update - archived data prior to Local Health Board reorganisation

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

NHS electronic staff record

Source 2

Workforce Services, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

Management information

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local health boards

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

Sickness absence rates of directly employed NHS Wales staff.

Data collection and calculation

Data is extracted from the NHS Electronic Staff Record. Sickness absence rates by month, quarter and year are calculated by dividing the total number of sickness absence days by the total number of available days for each organisation.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Data reference periods

January 2008 onwards

Users, uses and context

For information on users, uses and context please see the linked publication

Rounding applied

Percentages have been rounded to one decimal place.

Revisions information

In each quarterly publication, data for the previous quarter is revised in order to include late amendments to sickness records.

Weblinks

http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/sickness-absence-nhs/?lang=en

Statistical quality

For information on statistical quality please see the linked publication.

Keywords

Staff; sickness absence; pre-2009

Name

HLTH0427