Hospital staff sickness and absence (FOI)Hospital staff sickness and absence (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
29 October 2020.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please provide a table showing the number of working days lost due to absences (for any reason) in Jersey’s Health and Community Services department during the following months:
March 2019, April 2019, May 2019, June 2019, July 2019, August 2019
March 2020, April 2020, May 2020, June 2020, July 2020, August 2020
For each month, please also provide:
figures showing a breakdown of the reasons given for those absences (eg sickness, stress, isolating, other etc)
The working days lost as a percentage of the total number of available working days
The total number of staff contracted to the department
Response
The information below relates to sickness only. Information in respect of all other absences is not held in a format that would enable it to be provided as requested.
Table 1 –The headcount for each month and the days lost through sickness as a percentage of the total number of available working days for the requested months in 2019 and 2020. Please refer to Table 2 for the total sickness days lost.
Sickness Period | Headcount | Monthly Working Days Available | Sickness % |
2019 | 2,275 | 233,793 | 7.4% |
| March | 2,252 | 38,479 | 8.5% |
| April | 2,266 | 38,757 | 7.5% |
| May | 2,262 | 38,687 | 6.9% |
| June | 2,277 | 39,041 | 7.1% |
| July | 2,300 | 39,439 | 7.3% |
| August | 2,295 | 39,390 | 7.1% |
2020 | 2,423 | 251,453 | 6.5% |
| March | 2,333 | 40,299 | 8.6% |
| April | 2,458 | 42,482 | 6.7% |
| May | 2,476 | 42,813 | 5.2% |
| June | 2,476 | 42,774 | 6.2% |
| July | 2,466 | 42,650 | 7.1% |
| August | 2,333 | 40,435 | 5.0% |
| Grand Total | 2,351 | 485,246 | 6.9% |
Table 2 - Figures showing a breakdown by number of days of the reasons given for those absences for sickness for 2019 and 2020
Table 2 - Reasons for sickness absence 2019 and 2020
Due to the small numbers involved and to prevent disclosure of personal information in one area below (endocrine) a specific number has not been provided Article 25 (Personal information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.
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