Nurse Absences - FOI Response Register

I am submitting a freedom of information request on the basis that I would like information about mental health of nurses.

In providing the response please note that “nurses” includes Nurses and Midwives

1. The number of instances of nurse absences due to stress, anxiety, depression or other psychiatric illness in total in the last six years.

Please express this data in two ways: firstly in calendar years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 so far) and financial year (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 so far)

An FOI Clarification: By number of instances of absence I mean the overall number of absences recorded (which may include multiple absences taken by the same nurse several times).

2. The number of nurses by headcount who took an absence due to stress anxiety, depression, or other psychiatric illness in the last six years.

Please express this data in two ways: firstly in calendar years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 so far) and financial year (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 so far)

An FOI Clarification: This request differs from request 1 because I am asking for the number of nurses who officially took an absence NOT the number of instances of absence which may count the same officer multiple times. For example, 350 nurses may have taken an absence but there may be 472 recorded instances of absence.

Please note that where an employee has more than one post and has had an absence in both posts they are counted as 1 in the figures below.

3. The number of working hours lost due to nurse mental health absences in total in the financial year 2023/24 so far.

Please also include (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23)

An FOI Clarification: When I use the term Nurse I am referring to all bands/grades.