PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Industrial Health and Safety (15 November 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS staff have (a) taken medical severance, (b) taken early retirement on health grounds and (c) been redeployed due to work-related injury or illness in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

The table below shows the number (headcount) of National Health Service staff who have taken ill health retirement in each of the last five years.

	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16
Retirement – Ill health	1,410	1,334	1,210	1,257	1,384

There is no separate process for “medical severance” in the NHS. Staff only have access to ill health retirement.

Information on NHS staff who have been redeployed due to work-related injury or illness is not collected centrally.

Source: Provisional NHS Hospital and Community Health Service monthly workforce statistics, NHS Digital.

Answered by:
Philip Dunne (Conservative)
18 November 2016