1.General sickness absence from 2020-2025:
See Attachment
2. The total number of staff sickness absence days taken each year, broken down by year from 2020-2025.
See Attachment
3. Categorisation of sickness absence:
See Attachment
· Does your organisation code sickness absences by specific category or reason (e.g. ‘mental health’, ‘burnout’, ‘flu’, ‘musculoskeletal issues’)?
Yes
· If yes, please provide the breakdown for each recorded sickness category for each year in the five-year period (2020-2025).
See Attachment
· If such categorisations have changed over time, please indicate when changes to categories or coding
were implemented.
No Changes
4. Locum and agency staff usage from 2020-2025:
· The total number of locum or agency staff engaged in each year of the five-year period (2020-2025).
We currently have 55 active agency workers on our system, this includes all apart from Medics
(Unable to answer for a 5-year period)
· If records permit, please detail the total expenditure on locum or agency staff for each year.
· Agency Spend:
|
2020
|
£12,886,387.06
|
|
2021
|
£15,818,940.79
|
|
2022
|
£20,349,586.72
|
|
2023
|
£21,190,774.68
|
|
2024
|
£18,584,679.99
|
|
2025
|
£9,817,259.03
|
· If possible, please indicate whether the use of locum/agency staff was linked to covering staff sickness absences.
Sickness has been a result of using Agency staff.
