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.
And before you try to blame it on infections from patients:
The review found that while NHS workers were more likely to pick up illness and infections through their work, this could not explain all of the higher rates of absence.
The infections probably represent the 1 day difference between NHS and other public sector employees, but just look at the difference between the public sector as a whole and the private sector!
These aren't bad people. They just have no incentive to NOT call in sick.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6049107/Over-45000-NHS-staff-call-in-sick-each-day.html
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