Percentage absent by staff group and date

Actions

None

Organisation

Organisation 1

Measure1

Date

Date 1

Date 2

StaffGroup

StaffGroup 1

2023

2023

Jan - Mar 2024 Provisional

Jan - Mar 2023

Apr - Jun 2023

Jul - Sep 2023

Oct - Dec 2023 Revised

Jan 2024

Feb 2024

Mar 2024

Jan 2023

Feb 2023

Mar 2023

Apr 2023

May 2023

Jun 2023

Jul 2023

Aug 2023

Sep 2023

Oct 2023

Nov 2023

Dec 2023

All staff

6.7

6.0

6.1

6.3

5.8

5.6

6.0

6.1

6.5

6.4

6.7

6.5

6.1

6.7

6.3

5.8

6.3

All staff

Medical and Dental staff

2.1

2.0

1.8

1.9

2.0

1.7

1.8

2.2

2.3

2.2

2.0

2.4

2.3

2.2

2.3

Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting staff

8.1

7.2

7.4

7.6

7.1

6.9

7.0

7.4

7.5

7.4

7.8

7.6

8.1

7.8

7.5

8.1

7.5

7.1

7.6

Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical staff

5.2

4.9

5.0

4.5

4.3

4.2

4.3

4.7

4.8

5.0

5.2

5.1

4.8

5.3

4.9

4.5

4.9

Administration, Estates and General Payments staff

5.5

5.1

5.3

4.5

4.4

4.5

4.8

5.1

5.2

5.0

5.7

5.8

5.1

5.8

5.5

5.0

5.4

Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers

10.7

9.5

9.4

9.9

9.0

8.8

9.1

9.0

9.3

9.2

9.6

9.4

9.7

9.0

10.0

9.6

9.5

9.8

9.6

9.0

9.5

Ambulance staff

9.6

8.7

9.3

9.2

9.4

8.8

8.5

8.9

9.3

10.1

9.7

9.4

9.6

10.7

9.9

9.4

10.1

9.5

8.7

9.4

No occupation code There are a few records where no occupation code is recorded

0.0

0.0

6.9

61.3

23.1

Metadata

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

Title

NHS sickness absence rate, by organisation and staff group

Last update

17 July 2024

Next update

16 October 2024

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

None

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.

Weblinks

https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/NHS-Staff/Sickness-Absence
https://www.gov.wales/sickness-absence-nhs#Qualityreport

Keywords

Staff; sickness absence

Statistical quality

For information on statistical quality please see the linked publication.

Name

HLTH0440