Stress blamed for over a third of Worcestershire hospital sickness

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 17 Oct, 06:08 · Archive

Stress and anxiety account for more than a third of sickness absences at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Chief people officer Ali Koeltgen told the trust's board meeting on 13 October that sickness had remained high during the summer and was worse than the previous year, despite efforts to promote support available to staff.

Monthly sickness absence reached 5.74 per cent in the month to mid-October, an increase of 0.11 per cent from the previous month and 0.29 per cent worse than the same month the previous year. Stress-related absence remained unchanged at 36 per cent of all sickness absence across the trust.

However, stress accounted for a much larger proportion of absences in certain departments. The digital department recorded 66.57 per cent of its sickness attributable to stress, corporate recorded 51.50 per cent, and family care recorded 40.26 per cent.

How it is being reported

• More than a third of staff sickness at Worcestershire hospitals blamed on stressSTRESS and anxiety accounts for more than a third of sickness absences at Worcestershire hospitals.Malvern Gazette · 17 Oct, 05:01
• More than a third of staff sickness at Worcestershire hospitals blamed on stressSTRESS and anxiety accounts for more than a third of sickness absences at Worcestershire hospitals.Worcester News · 17 Oct, 05:01

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