Note: ‘Secondary care’ staff compares July 2022 with July 2019. ‘Primary care’ staff compares June 2022 with June 2019. Absence data are not available for primary care staff (GPs and primary care nurses). GPs do not include GPs in training. Note that the yellow bars show the effect of changes in sickness absences on 2022 effective staffing levels, not the change in sickness absence rates itself.
Source: Authors’ calculations using NHS Digital’s NHS Workforce Statistics (August 2022), NHS Digital’s NHS Sickness Absence Rates (July 2022), and NHS Digital’s General Practice Workforce (June 2022).
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