Staff Long Covid - FOI Response Register

1. The number of long term nurse absences that were attributed to long covid.

2020/21 – none; 2021/22 none; 2022/23 none, 2023/25 none.

Please note that have used absence reason Special Leave Long Covid, and from September 2022 (when that absence reason was disabled) have used sick leave Covid from this date onwards where the absence was in excess of 28 calendar days.

2. Please reflect this figure by year and, only if possible, the length of each absence.

N/A

3. The number of nurses that left NHS service due to suffering from long covid. In other words, nurses who didn’t return to work following an absence due to long covid.

N/A

4. The number of nurses who have made a claim of unfair dismissal against the board in relation to them having long covid. In other words, the number of unfair dismissal claims the board have faced as a result of former members of staff making a claim on the basis of their status as a long covid sufferer.

Nil

5. A copy of the guidance the board followed (all versions of it) used during 2021, 2022 and 2023 on employees being absent due to Covid-19.

National Guidance was used

6. If any guidance changed then please also include amended guidance or updated guidance.

N/A

7. The number of nurses that have been offered a redundancy package in relation to their condition of having long covid.

N/A

8. Please provide this figure broken down by financial year or calendar year.

N/A