§ Mr. HancockTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the current rates of sickness absence in each health trust for people employed in(a) ancillary and maintenance, (b) medical and dental, (c) nursing and midwifery, (d) professional and technical and (e) administrative, clerical and managerial posts; and what were the equivalent figures for each of the last five years. [54612]
§ Ms JowellStatistics of the incidence of ill-health among the National Health Service workforce are not collected centrally. Guidance has been issued to help NHS managers locally to collect and act upon sickness absence data.