UK NHS Absences due to Sickness - Interactive Data

UK National Health Service (NHS) Digital

Update Date: November - 2023

Carlos Alegria

Data:

Country: UK

Period: Monthly until June 2023.

Data Source (NHS): UK National Health Service (NHS) Digital .

Link to the latest data release: NHS Sickness Absence Rates, June 2023.

Information regarding NHS sickness absence statistics:

• The data in this analysis refers to the sickness absence rates for all causes, for all NHS workers, in England.
• Rates have been calculated by dividing the “Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Number of Days Sick” by the “FTE Number of Days Available” from the absence dimension on the ESR Data Warehouse. Rates are presented in 4 separate tables showing the National and NHS England (NHSE) region monthly rates, rates by staff group, rates by type of organisation and rates at organisation level.
  Source: Data Excel File.

Raw monthly absence rates from sickness in NHS workers

We provide our users, through the interactive chart below access to the raw monthly sickness absence rates for NHS workers. The user can choose the UK region of interest and download the data.

Sickness absence rates for NHS workers from 2009 to June of 2023

Excess sickness absence rates analysis

In this section We perform the analysis of monthly changes in sickness absence rates NHS for workers in England. We use as a baseline the 2009-2019 average sickeness absence rate in each month of the year, in order to remove seasonality. The interactive chart below allows the user to choose the region in the UK as well as the raw sickness absence rates (and seasonal trend baseline), excess sickess absence rates (as a relative deviation from trend in percentage as well as the Z-score deviation from trend).

Excess sickness absence rates analysis from 2009 to June of 2023