The true cost of NHS staff sick days

The true cost of NHS staff sick days Hospital staff calling in sick costs the NHS more than £1 billion a year, shocking new statistics show.

Overworked paramedics, nurses and midwives are being forced to take time off to cope with the current crisis, experts have warned.

Despite having a budget of £116.4 billion, a range of services are constantly being scuppered to help combat its growing deficit.

And this increasing pressure on staff to make up for the slashes is forcing the NHS to waste their own diminished budget on providing sick pay, MailOnline can exclusively reveal. The Daily Mail