Monday 03 November 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8975
Date Request Received: 15/10/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 23/10/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: sickness absences and staff usage
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: General sickness absence from 2020-2025: • The total number of staff sickness absence days taken each year, broken down by year from 2020-2025. | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see attached To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI 8975.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: Categorisation of sickness absence: • Does your organisation code sickness absences by specific category or reason (e.g. ‘mental health’, ‘burnout’, ‘flu’, ‘musculoskeletal issues’)? • If yes, please provide the breakdown for each recorded sickness category for each year in the five-year period (2020-2025). • If such categorisations have changed over time, please indicate when changes to categories or coding were implemented. | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see attached To accompany this answer to question 2 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 8975.xlsx | |
| Question Number 3: 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). • If records permit, please detail the total expenditure on locum or agency staff for each year. • If possible, please indicate whether the use of locum/agency staff was linked to covering staff sickness absences. | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see attached To accompany this answer to question 3 please also see the documents listed below: FOI 8975.xlsx | |
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