Hospital staff sickness absences (FOI)

​Request

Please tell me how many hospital staff were signed off work for any reason as at 24 July 2020?

Please include all full and part time permanent staff employees and those on times contracts.

Please state the nature of the reasons for sign off, particularly any medical certificates stating stress (in any form).

If medical certificates are coded please just state ‘coded’.

Response

Number of hospital staff recorded as being absent from work for any health-related reason as at 24 July 2020 was 95:

• General Hospital: 79

• Overdale Hospital: 8

• Rosewood House and Clinique Pinel: 8

Reasons for the above staff being absent:

• Anxiety, Stress, Depression

• Cancer

• Corona Virus

• Endocrine

• Gastrointestinal

• Gynaecological

• Miscellaneous

• Musculoskeletal

• Nervous System

• Respiratory

• Senses