Current Long Term Sickness Absences
Reference: 24-25555
Date response sent: 14/01/2025
Details of enquiry
We formally request under the FOI 2000 regulations Act data you hold in relation to your headline figures/estimates where people are still on full contractual paid but classed as long-term sick:
- >60 but less than 120 days
- >120 but less than 365 days
- >1yr but less than 2yr days
- > 2yr but less than 3yr days
Response sent
| Number of days
Sickness Absence |
No of staff | Annual cost (accumulative) |
| >60 but less than 120 | 19 | £145,748 |
| >120 but less than 365 | 19 | £364,103 |
| > 1yr but less than 2yr | ≤5 | £4,172 |
| > 2yr but less than 3yr | 0 | £0 |
| more than 3yr’s | 0 | £0 |
In the above table we have masked a low number as the symbol ‘≤5’, which indicates where a number is equal to 5 or less than 5.
It is the NHS England standard not to provide data where numbers are lower than 6 as this may lead to identification of individuals. This masking of low numbers is not a just a question of considering the means reasonably likely to be used by general public, but also the means likely to be used by a determined person with a particular reason to want to identify individuals from data in the public domain now or in the future, and/or gained from other sources
Furthermore, as we are a small Trust, there is a high chance of recognition/identification of particular individuals by fellow staff/patients or others from the low numbers.
It is for these reasons and in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Section 40(2) and Section 40(3a) (Personal Data, that this low number is withheld.
Disclosure of this type of personal data or easily identifiable personal data would thus be unfair, breaching GDPR Principle (a): Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. As this is an absolute exemption, we do not have to apply the Public Interest Test when engaging this exemption