NHS sickness levels reach unsustainable levels – & are three times higher than the private sector, damning study reveals

SICKNESS levels among NHS staff are three times as high as the rate for average private sector workers, a report shows.  Absences were also nearly twice as frequent as the overall public sector rate.   The damning study reveals the NHS staff sickness rate for 2024 was 5.15 per cent. That cost the NHS, overseen by Health Secretary James Murray,...