HSE staff took 100,000 sick days in one month

[drzhivago]

We would need some analysis of this figure which does sound horrific.

Who was taking the sick leave? Is the HSE managers junior and senior who are taking the leave rather than sitting in an office doing very little.

Many in HSE are now on short term contracts and probably not entitled to paid sick leave.

Medical staff, given cutbacks/non replacement, might actually be sick - worn out. Hospitals may not be the healthiest place to work.

Sick leave may be a sympton of the bad morale in the HSE. Maybe a change of Minister and top management would help?!

Not the medical staff

look up that new Healthstat healthstar or whatever its called
0.3% sick leave among medics
7% among other staff

The aim is to have an average of 3.5%

Does that mean medics should report sick more often?????

[drkpower]

Not the medical staff

look up that new Healthstat healthstar or whatever its called
0.3% sick leave among medics
7% among other staff

The aim is to have an average of 3.5%

Does that mean medics should report sick more often?????

Surely the official stats dont really reflect NCHD sick days, DrZ?
My memory was that NCHD's, with a few exceptions, would only inform their team that they are ill rather than inform management/admin. That was the case for short periods of illnesss anyway.....

Mind you, there is no doubt that the NCHD level of sick days was extremely low.

[drzhivago]

Surely the official stats dont really reflect NCHD sick days, DrZ?
My memory was that NCHD's, with a few exceptions, would only inform their team that they are ill rather than inform management/admin. That was the case for short periods of illnesss anyway.....

Mind you, there is no doubt that the NCHD level of sick days was extremely low.

All changed utterly since your day old man

As a legal bod you would be aware of SI related to working hours and the activities of doctors in training from 2004, they have to record your rostered and actual working hours, time released for work for educational activities, annual leave and sick leave and have a legal obligation to hold the data for 3 years

Dare say they could tell you how many fart breaks you took too if someone was seriously interested

This is gone way beyond big brother

[drkpower]

All changed utterly since your day old man

As a legal bod you would be aware of SI related to working hours and the activities of doctors in training from 2004, they have to record your rostered and actual working hours, time released for work for educational activities, annual leave and sick leave and have a legal obligation to hold the data for 3 years

Dare say they could tell you how many fart breaks you took too if someone was seriously interested

This is gone way beyond big brother

Haha.
Very good.

I'm amazed. All I remember was the disdain we had for the admin/management types (and this was pre-HSE!!). We wouldnt tell the fookers we worked there if it wasnt necessary to get paid!!

[drzhivago]

Haha.
Very good.

I'm amazed. All I remember was the disdain we had for the admin/management types (and this was pre-HSE!!). We wouldnt tell the fookers we worked there if it wasnt necessary to get paid!!

Ah
The good old days (tear in eye, dreaming of a better time)

[drzhivago]

Haha.
Very good.

I'm amazed. All I remember was the disdain we had for the admin/management types (and this was pre-HSE!!). We wouldnt tell the fookers we worked there if it wasnt necessary to get paid!!

I am waiting for the day they approach me with one of those ankle alarms they put on babies in hospitals to check when and where i enter the building

I presume it will have some sort of alarm which squeezes my leg to tell me its my turn for the scheduled lunch break and will take me off the clock when i enter the canteen (that is unless i am gone there on a cardiac arrest call-has happened)

Oh if only i had some worthwhile transferrable skill to get me a real job in something like administration maybe !!!!!

[X-ray]

Which would totally explain why caterers (who presumably work mostly in a clean environment) are out sick more than nurses (who have much more direct contact with sick patients).

Since these almost all work for private companies it blows the arguement out of the water. Cambells catering etc provide most of the catering in the hospitals that I am aware of.
Hardly the states business how much sickies their staff take...