It meant the sickness
absence rate rose from 5.2 per cent of possible days, to 5.7 per cent.
Alder Hey had a sickness
absence rate of 5.4% in 2018/19 (up from 5.2% the previous year), while at the Wirral trust it was 5.1% (up from 4.8%).
An NHS Grampian spokesman said: "In 2018-19 NHS Grampian had the second lowest
absence rate of any territorial board in the country and the lowest on the mainland at 4.53% - well ahead of the Scottish average at 5.39%.
The agency said the
absence rate was 3.1 percent on the comparable Sunday in 2018.
Greenwood Academy had the second highest unauthorised
absence rate during the two terms, at 5.5 per cent, Tile Cross Academy was third, at 4.1 per cent, and Harborne Academy fourth at 4.0 per cent.
There is a gap though between the
absence rate in the public sector and the private sector.
"When considering the sickness
absence rate at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board reached 6% last January, there must be an investigation into the cause.
The ONS measure the so-called sickness
absence rate - the proportion of working hours lost due to sickness.
The school drove down its chronic
absence rate from 18 percent in 2012-2013 to seven percent in 2014-2015.
Data were organized by bilateral versus unilateral absence, study author, population, male versus female (where available), left or right absence (for unilateral), study population-size, number of frontal sinus absences, and frontal sinus
absence rate, calculated as absences divided by population size (Appendices A and B).
THE Welsh Ambulance Service continues to have the highest sickness
absence rate of any NHS service, new figures have revealed.