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"Employers that do not pay attention to non-medical absences are missing early indicators that an employee is having reoccurring absence, which could be disguising the fact that they are unwell, stressed, demotivated and not wanting to go to work."
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Fit notes, which were introduced by the Labour government to reduce the length of long-term workplace absences, actually double the time that employees are likely to be off work, according to new analysis by absence management specialist FirstCare. Analysis of FirstCare’s databank of six million days...
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Health chiefs today said Londoners should stay away from hospital accident and emergency departments over Christmas and the New Year unless they have a life-threatening condition or are otherwise seriously ill or injured. They used Twitter to urge people to use walk-in-centres, consult their GP or...
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FirstCare has brought the importance of health in the workplace and effective absence management with its first parliamentary event, which was held in the House of Commons on 14 December in partnership with the charity Wellbeing of Women. Guests to the event, which was co-sponsored and...
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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...
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Leading absence management specialist FirstCare has announced the appointment of David Hope as its new Chief Executive Officer. David succeeds former managing director Aaron Ross, who has left the company to pursue other projects. David previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer at FirstCare, and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has appointed leading absence management specialist, FirstCare, to provide day one absence management for over 3,000 employees from its Adult Social Care, Children’s Services and Chief Executives departments. The service, which commences on the 1 October 2009, will...
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Leading absence management specialist FirstCare announced today its support of the Government-commissioned NHS health and wellbeing interim report released yesterday. The findings of the study of 11,000 employees by Dr Stuart Boorman included survey responses from 200 NHS Trusts. The findings show annual NHS sickness...
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The world is no more different today than it was yesterday, but.... Despite the World Health Organisation announcing that we are now facing the first Global Flu Pandemic for over 40 years, Dr Chan of the WHO was quick to point out that the pandemic will...
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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...
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Last year absence increased by 22% as employees phoned in sick on Blue Monday, today even more are expected to stay under the duvet. Blue Monday is the culmination of a series of combined depressive events including the Christmas glow fading, New Year’s resolutions being broken,...
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Even though three-quarters of UK employers agree that the real cost of sickness should be assessed in terms of lost revenue, only one in ten organisations interviewed for a new research report launched today, go beyond measuring just the wage bill for people who are...
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The Health Secretary has launched a campaign today to introduce ‘well notes' to replace the old sick note. FirstCare, the UK's leading attendance management specialist, believes that this will place even more burden on already stretched GP services, while continuing to result in excessive incapacity...
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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...
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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%...
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June 2007 was the wettest June on record, with the excessive rainfall dampening the UK workforce's desire to 'throw a sickie' according to FirstCare, the UK's leading attendance management specialist. "We saw average absence levels for June 2007 of 0.7 days lost per employee, compared to...
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