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<p>NHS Digital publishes Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) workforce statistics
for England. These include staff working in hospital trusts and clinical commissioning
groups, but not staff working in primary care or in general practitioner surgeries,
local authorities or other providers.</p><p> </p><p>The following table shows the
number people who have stated that they have taken voluntary early retirement for
the last three years and latest available data for 2018/19, headcount:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p><sup>1</sup>2018/19</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Voluntary
early retirement</p></td><td><p>3,229</p></td><td><p>3,131</p></td><td><p>3,000</p></td><td><p>705</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source:
NHS Digital, National Health Service HCHS workforce statistics</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p><sup>1</sup>This
only covers the first quarter of 2018/19 (1 April 2018 to 30 of June 2018).</p><p>
</p><p>NHS Digital publishes data on the number of days lost to sickness absence.
It does not publish data on number of staff on sick leave.</p><p> </p><p>NHS Digital
publishes monthly data on sickness absence rates which cover sickness absence rate
by region, staff group, organisation and organisation type. Information is not published
on the length of sick-leave taken.</p><p> </p><p>NHS staff get up to six months full
pay and then six months half pay when on sick leave subject to length of service as
set out in terms and conditions of service.</p>
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