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on 8/6/04 6:18 pm, Nazmiye Bury at [log in to unmask] wrote: Our managers record it on personal record cards in the individuals personal files, as I do myself Regards Naz From: Fields Shirley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 08 June 2004 11:42 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sickness Absences Monitoring To NHS colleagues I am currently in the process of trying to get the Trust (via managers) to record reasons for absences. Has anyone got a similar process operating within their Trust and willing to share ideas and information. Thanks Shirley Fields Occupational Health Manager Burton Hospitals NHS Trust Queen's Hospital Burton on Trent DE13 0RB 01283 511511 ext 2372 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. For list archives and documents, go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html for list archives For jobs in Occupational Health, go to http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/OHJobs/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. For list archives and documents, go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html for list archives For jobs in Occupational Health, go to http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/OHJobs/ Hello Naz How are you? Its nice to read your contributions on JISC. Just a quick question. I fully acknowledge the importance of absences being recorded by line managers and HR. However, I know a number of OHNs do get involved in recording such info but am not sure if I would go along with OHNs in most services being involved in such routine record keeping on several counts: 1. Attendance management is a management responsibility. The responsibility should not lie with the OH service. This info can be provided if management make a referral to OH 2. When I was in practice I barely had enough time to carry out all the aspects of my role that I needed to undertake without taking on additional administrative tasks. There is one consultancy which was represented at an IRS conference on sickness absence that I chaired recently. They have an interesting approach to recording of absences of the employees of their clients. All absences are reported to a nurse (not an OHN) in a "contact centre" who then logs in the absence and initiates one of a number of interventions. If anyone is interested go their website is www.active-hp.co.uk Anne Harriss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remove this footer before replying. For list archives and documents, go to http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html for list archives For jobs in Occupational Health, go to http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/OHJobs/