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Welfare News Service (UK) - Newswire
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Statistics released by the Office for National Statistics suggest that women are 42 per cent more likely to take sick days than men 
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131 million days were lost due to sickness absences in the UK in 2013, down from 178 million days in 1993, according to a new report looking at sickness trends over the past 20 years. Most of the fall in sickness absence was between 2003 and 2011. Looking at the number of days lost per worker, in 1993, around 7.2 days were lost and by 2013 this had fallen to 4.4 days.
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The government has announced a new service designed to help employees who have been on sickness absence return to work.
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AROUND 95,000 workers were off sick in Scotland for more than a month over the past three years, a government study has revealed.
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Latest figures from the Department for Work and Pensions revealed 960,000 were absent for a month or more due to illness.
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A new scheme to get the sick back to work is to be launched by the Department for Work and Pensions in a bid to slash Britain's welfare bill.
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Yorkshire ambulance staff have voted to take strike action over changes in shift patterns which could mean paramedics going more than 10 hours without a meal break and staff being forced to work 12 hour shifts.
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Our new strategy sets out ideas on how to help more disabled people and those with health conditions get into and stay in work.
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Amazon workers could face an increased risk of "mental and physical illness", a leading stress expert has claimed, after being shown undercover footage of working conditions at one warehouse.
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Jeremy Hunt’s personal message to all NHS staff following the government's final response to the Francis report.
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Days off for sniffles, aches and minor injures have tumbled from five “duvet days” a year in 2008 to just 1.3 today
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The move came on the day the Mirror revealed savage Coalition cuts were putting patient lives at risk
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The London Ambulance Service has been given permission by the UK Border Agency to go Down Under to help fill 250 vacancies
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BRITISH workers had 131 million days off sick last year, with back and neck complaints by far the biggest cause, official figures showed yesterday.
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A DISTURBING picture of Sicknote Britain was exposed last night with figures showing half a million employees are off work every day because of illness.
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As 566,000 come off benefits since 2010, ministers move to tackle sickness absence with new service.
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The Department for Work and Pensions says employees off work for more than a month will be offered health assessments to cut Britain's annual £9bn sick pay bill
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The new Health and Work Service will help employees who have been on sickness absence for four weeks to return to work.
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From April, staff absent for over four weeks can be referred for assessments with the Health and Work Service.
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Telegraph survey shows significant shortages of senior doctors and nurses in the NHS
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Almost 650,000 workers, two per cent of Britain's workforce, phone in sick each week - sparking calls for bosses to encourage healthier lifestyles among staff.
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Hundreds of Spanish nurses will start work across Britain this week, having been fast-tracked to work at NHS hospitals in what the Royal College of Nursing is describing as a “crisis in workforce supply”.
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Doctors and nurses found guilty of "wilful neglect" of patients could face jail, the government is proposing.
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Zero-hours contracts for home care staff can damage services to elderly people. The company Allied Healthcare has offered to put its 15,000 employees on contracts. But staff won't be paid for travel.
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