Over 45,000 NHS staff call in sick each day - Telegraph

Over 45,000 NHS staff call in sick each day - Telegraph: "The independent review found Improving the health and well-being of 1.4 million NHS staff could potentially save over half a billion pounds every year.

Annual NHS sickness levels are 10.7 days a year per employee - higher than the public sector average of 9.7 days and 50 per cent higher than the private sector average of 6.4 days."

The NHS loses 10.3 million working days annually due to sickness absence alone, costing £1.7 billion per year.

"A reduction of a third would mean an extra 3.4 million working days a year, and annual direct cost savings of over half a billion pounds (£555 million)," the study said.