Hundreds of staff employed by a major NHS group in Greater Manchester are off work every day due to sickness – but Covid-related absences are falling.
Approximately 1,200 staff at the Northern Care Alliance (NCA) - which runs Salford Royal, the Royal Oldham, Rochdale Infirmary and Fairfield General hospitals as well as other health care services in these areas - are off each day.
This accounts for around 6.32 pc of the total workforce employed by the organisation which is slightly below the Greater Manchester average of 7 pc. READ MORE: Ambulances queue, A&E fills and an exhausted paramedic bears witness to a broken system spiralling into chaos Particular concerns have been raised about Oldham and Salford – but health bosses say similar
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