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New data compiled by FirstCare has found that while borough council staff across London are taking fewer sickness absences than at any point in the last three years, the cost of that absence still exceeded £118 million in 2011. Click here to read the Evening Standard article on FirstCare’s findings.
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He said it was “clear for a host of reasons that GPs are still signing people off too readily” and cited recent analysis from FirstCare of 22,086 employee records found that workers who went to their GP for a Fit Note were absent from work for 48 days on average, compared to 20 days for [...]
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The introduction of Fit Notes was supposed to end long term sickness absence, but a new study has revealed time off has actually doubled. According to the study conducted by management firm FirstCare, workers who went to their GP for a Fit Note were absent from work for 48 days on average, compared to 20 [...]
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Workplace absence increased by 125 percent thanks to the recent severe weather and has left employers in Scotland out of pocket to the tune of £50 million in little more than week, according to absence management specialist FirstCare. Analysis by FirstCare has found that workplace absence in Scotland increased by 125 percent between the [...]
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NHS staff could face a winter of ill health, with absence management specialist FirstCare predicting that healthcare workers are almost 25 percent more likely to suffer from coughs, colds and flu than employees from the private sector. Analysis of data by FirstCare has found that instances of absence due to coughs, colds and flu [...]
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Employers failing to plan ahead could face a perfect storm of staff absence, as new figures from absence management specialist FirstCare has shown that instances of non-medical absence are likely to increase by more than 250 percent as the UK prepares for deteriorating weather conditions. Analysis of data by FirstCare has found that the [...]
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FLU AND COLDS CITED AS REASON FOR £6M COST OF MORE THAN 35,000 NHS STAFF SICK DAYS ON JANUARY 4 AND 5 FirstCare,the leading provider of absence management and a full range of occupational health services, recorded that a staggering 36,900 days have been lost due to cough, cold and flu-related staff absence in the [...]
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The combination of snow, ice and freezing temperatures across the UK have created “the perfect storm” for employee absence, potentially costing the UK economy billions says FirstCare the UK’s leading absence management company. “As of today 10.8% of employees in the UK are currently absent from work, the highest figure we have on record for [...]
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Absence management and occupational health are set to become key issues for Britain’s major employers in the public and private sector in 2011 as the repercussions from this autumn’s Comprehensive Spending Review pan out. FirstCare is the leading company in the UK offering outsourced management of these important areas. FirstCare looks after 120,000 employees and [...]
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With the second bout of snow in 2010 covering most of the UK, there has been a four-fold increase in the level of employee absences due to adverse weather in comparison with the levels usually seen at this time of year. Organisations based in Scotland and the North of the country have been most severely [...]
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Today, the CIPD launched their latest findings into the state of employee absence across the private and public sector and at FirstCare we were more than a little alarmed at the types of headlines generated as a result. It appears that the main focus of the report is that employers believe there has been an [...]
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The absence data collected by FirstCare shows that in 2008 the UK lost 1025 days per thousand employees to cough, cold and flu related absence costing UK employers approximately £6.4bn. In 2009 this figure increased to 3075 days lost per thousand employees because of coughs, colds and flu. This would have cost the UK employers around £19.2bn. The clear difference in [...]
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The ongoing travel restrictions in Europe are now hitting UK Businesses as employees fail to make it back to work from their holidays. This morning more than twelve times the usual number of employees phoned in absent with a ‘Transport Related’ problem. “Normally we would expect to see fewer than 3,000 employees across the UK start [...]
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The TUC report published today is anything but the ‘Truth About Sickness Absence’(LINK: http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/tuc-17767-f0.cfm).The small sample of online questionnaires (2,003 of which 42% were students, retired or unemployed) cannot possibly dispute the database of 115,000employees FirstCare covers across the UK. The truth is that public sector workers have significantly higher sickness levels than similar employees in the [...]
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Alistair Darling’s pledge to reduce staff sickness in the NHS by “up to £555m” is a significant understatement of the potential savings that could be made, according to absence reduction specialists FirstCare. FirstCare work with 17 NHS Trusts across the UK and have already reduced absence levels by an average of 26% in the first [...]
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Bassetlaw District Council has partnered with FirstCare to better understand absence trends and focus resource on, “persistent problem areas,” within the council. Miriam Parker, HR Business Partner at Bassetlaw comments: “FirstCare introduced Bassetlaw to the concept of “Day One” Absence Management. We could clearly see the benefits of such a service and decided to investigate [...]
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West Lothian Council has appointed FirstCare to provide a Nurse Led Call Centre absence management facility for 500 of its 8,500 permanent employees. The Council had previously piloted a nurse led call centre approach to absence management and following the success of the pilot, which has shown a downward trend in sickness absence, the Council [...]
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Walsall Housing Group (whg) has appointed leading absence management specialist, FirstCare, to provide day one absence management for its 670 strong workforce. The FirstCare service which commenced on 1 February 2010, encompasses day one nurse-led absence reporting, policy compliance tracking, stage of absence management and the provision of a fully secure online manager’s portal that [...]
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Absence rates across the UK soared to record levels this week, with 12.5% of the UK working population absent from work. The unseasonably high levels can be attributed to the combination of an increase in coughs and colds, the effects of the Norovirus, the miserable weather and the slow start to the New Year after [...]
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Winter beckons a dramatic increase in absence levels throughout the UK workforce. October saw a 33% increase in absences due to coughs, colds and flu like symptoms, according to FirstCare, leading UK specialists in attendance management. “Coughs, colds and flu like symptoms normally account for 15% of all absences across the UK workforce; in October, [...]
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