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Sickness absence rate

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Amount of time lost through absences as a percentage of staff time available for directly employed staff.

Rationale
Meeting Working Together targets on levels of sickness absence is a criterion that NHS employers must meet in order to achieve Improving Working Lives accreditation. There is a target for all NHS employers to be accredited as putting the Improving Working Lives into practice.

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Significantly below average  1  greater than 6.1%
Below average  2  less than or equal to 6.1% and greater than 5.7%
Average  3  less than or equal to 5.7% and greater than 4.4%
Above average  4  less than or equal to 4.4% and greater than 3.7%
Significantly above average  5  less than or equal to 3.7%

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