Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh
Strangely enough, hospital doctors have one of the lowest sickness absences.
This spreadsheet shows that, on average, the annualised figures are -
Ambulance Staff 6.05%
Administration and Estates 3.37%
Healthcare Assistants and Other Support Staff 6.03%
Medical and Dental Staff* 1.09%
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Staff 4.79%
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Learners 1.04%
Scientific, Therapeutic and Technical Staff 3.14%
Healthcare Scientists 3.03%
*including consultants, registrars and other doctors in training.
Data for medical and dental staff are an annual snapshot of the number of doctors within hospital and community health services (HCHS) of the NHS. It excludes General Practitioners, GP practice staff and high street dentists.
|
Those are eye opening figures for sure.
I think the most stressed staff in hospitals in my view are doctors, they always the ones swamped with work whenever I go, rather than nurses. eg. when going to the eye clinic, the nurse see's everyone within 5 minutes. But then its a 30+ min wait for the doctor after. In eye casualty its even worse, 4 nurses and only 1 doctor, see a nurse within 5-10 minutes then usually 4 hours at least wait for the doctor. Once when I went to a cardic department on an ambulance, I remember seeing a group of nurses chatting to each other for a while, but any doctor I seen seemed always busy. I think was 2 doctors in that department.