Percentage absent by organisation and date

Actions

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Staff group

Staff group 1

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Date

Date 1

Date 2

Organisation

Organisation 1

2022

2022

2023

Jan - Mar 2022

Apr - Jun 2022

Jul - Sep 2022

Oct - Dec 2022 Revised

Jan - Mar 2023 Provisional

Jan 2022

Feb 2022

Mar 2022

Apr 2022

May 2022

Jun 2022

Jul 2022

Aug 2022

Sep 2022

Oct 2022

Nov 2022

Dec 2022

Jan 2023

Feb 2023

Mar 2023

Wales

7.7

6.8

7.2

6.0

6.5

6.6

7.4

6.3

6.2

6.6

6.7

6.6

7.9

7.1

6.9

6.6

6.0

6.1

6.3

Wales

Betsi Cadwaladr University LHB

7.2

6.4

7.0

6.9

6.8

5.7

6.4

6.3

7.2

6.2

5.8

6.4

6.3

7.4

6.7

6.6

6.3

5.5

6.0

Powys Teaching LHB

6.5

5.9

6.5

6.3

6.6

5.4

5.7

5.9

6.4

5.6

5.7

5.9

6.8

6.2

6.1

5.6

5.0

4.9

5.2

Hywel Dda University LHB

6.9

6.4

6.7

6.9

5.9

6.4

7.0

6.0

6.1

6.4

6.7

7.9

7.1

6.6

6.5

5.9

6.1

6.2

Swansea Bay University LHB From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. The health board names have changed.

From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. The health board names have changed.

9.2

8.1

8.5

8.6

8.7

7.0

7.4

7.7

8.8

7.2

6.9

7.6

7.5

7.2

8.9

7.9

8.0

7.5

7.0

7.1

7.2

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University LHB From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. The health board names have changed.

8.9

7.2

7.7

7.9

8.2

6.8

7.7

7.5

8.2

7.2

6.7

7.4

7.1

7.2

8.3

7.6

7.3

6.9

6.6

6.9

Aneurin Bevan University LHB

7.7

6.6

7.0

7.1

6.1

6.4

6.5

7.4

6.6

6.7

6.9

7.0

6.8

8.0

7.3

6.9

6.8

6.2

5.9

6.3

Cardiff & Vale University LHB

7.4

7.0

7.5

7.3

7.1

6.3

6.8

6.7

7.5

6.7

6.6

7.0

7.4

7.1

8.6

7.7

7.2

6.3

6.4

6.7

Public Health Wales NHS Trust

5.2

4.2

4.3

4.6

4.0

3.9

4.8

4.2

6.0

4.3

4.2

4.8

4.4

4.3

6.0

4.9

4.6

4.7

4.1

3.9

4.2

Velindre NHS Trust Some NWSSP staff recorded separately to Velindre between Jan-May 2021. All NWSSP staff recorded separately from Jun 2021 onwards.

Some NWSSP staff recorded separately to Velindre between Jan-May 2021. All NWSSP staff recorded separately from Jun 2021 onwards.

6.4

6.0

7.3

6.6

7.0

5.8

6.2

6.3

6.9

5.3

5.0

5.7

5.9

6.2

7.5

6.6

6.3

6.7

5.8

6.1

Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

12.2

11.0

12.0

11.8

11.2

8.9

9.2

9.7

10.4

8.7

8.5

9.2

9.5

8.7

10.7

9.7

10.1

9.0

8.0

8.4

8.5

Health Education and Improvement Wales Special Heath Authority - established on 1 October 2018

2.7

2.0

1.8

2.2

1.3

1.4

1.6

1.4

2.0

2.4

2.9

2.4

2.7

2.0

3.4

2.7

2.2

3.1

3.2

2.7

3.0

Digital Health and Care Wales Special Heath Authority - established on 1 April 2021

3.6

3.0

3.4

3.3

3.1

2.3

2.4

2.6

2.4

1.9

2.4

2.2

3.4

3.2

3.8

3.4

2.9

3.0

2.9

3.4

3.1

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Some NWSSP staff recorded separately to Velindre between Jan-May 2021. All NWSSP staff recorded separately from Jun 2021 onwards.

4.0

3.5

3.3

3.6

3.2

2.5

2.9

3.1

2.5

2.7

3.0

2.8

3.5

3.1

2.9

3.0

Metadata

High level information
Summary information
Keywords
Statistical quality information
Weblinks
Open Data

Title

NHS sickness absence rate, by organisation and staff group

Last update

9 August 2023

Next update

TBC

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

NHS electronic staff record

Source 2

Workforce Services, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

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 and each staff group.

Frequency of publication

Quarterly

Data reference periods

July 2009 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.

Keywords

Staff; sickness absence

Statistical quality

For information on statistical quality please see the linked publication.

Weblinks

https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Staff/Sickness-Absence

Name

HLTH0440

Dataset

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/dataset/hlth0440

Metadata

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/metadata?$filter=Dataset eq 'hlth0440'

Dimensions

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/datasetdimensions?$filter=Dataset eq 'hlth0440'

Items

http://open.statswales.gov.wales/en-gb/discover/datasetdimensionitems?$filter=Dataset eq 'hlth0440'