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Written Question · S1W-08614 · Session 1

What the staff absence level has been for the Scottish Ambulance Service for each of the last three years, broken down by local authority a…

Answered Asked by Robert Brown LD Lodged 10 Jul 2000

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what the staff absence level has been for the Scottish Ambulance Service for each of the last three years, broken down by local authority area.

The answer

Answered by Susan Deacon on 25 Jul 2000 · 15 days after it was lodged, on time

The information broken down by health board area is as follows:Health Board Area | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000
Argyll and Clyde | 4.84% | 6.30% | 6.50%
Ayrshire and Arran | 4.89% | 6.34% | 5.25%
Borders | 4.21% | 3.78% | 3.47%
Dumfries and Galloway | 4.71% | 5.67% | 7.19%
Fife | 3.41% | 3.22% | 4.11%
Forth Valley | 3.60% | 5.55% | 6.44%
Grampian | 5.60% | 6.42% | 5.20%
Greater Glasgow | 9.84% | 10.80% | 8.72%
Highland | 3.91% | 4.78% | 4.23%
Lanarkshire | 6.48% | 7.11% | 7.70%
Lothian | 6.51% | 8.10% | 9.31%
Orkney | 0.40% | 0.65% | 2.25%
Shetland | 1.26% | 3.61% | 3.78%
Tayside | 4.32% | 5.23% | 5.92%
Western Isles | 1.64% | 5.57% | 5.48%
Scotland | 5.54% | 6.55% | 6.46%

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