How many NHS staff are on long-term sick leave, broken down by NHS board.

The number of employees1, by NHS board on long-term sick leave2, 3 as at 31 March 2009 were:
NHS Board Area
| Number

NHS Scotland
| 3,389

National Waiting Times Centre
| 26

NHS 24
| 32

NHS Ayrshire and Arran
| 250

NHS Borders
| 63

NHS Dumfries and Galloway
| 85

NHS Education for Scotland
| 11

NHS Fife
| 206

NHS Forth Valley
| 140

NHS Grampian
| 275

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| 975

NHS Highland
| 178

NHS Lanarkshire
| 231

NHS Lothian
| 415

NHS National Services Scotland
| 62

NHS Orkney
| 15

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
| 3

NHS Shetland
| 10

NHS Tayside
| 277

NHS Western Isles
| 22

Scottish Ambulance Service
| 87

State Hospital
| 30

Source: SWISS (Scottish Workforce Information Standard System).
Notes:
1. Includes permanent and fixed term contract types.
2. Sickness absence is defined as the following “ Normal Sick Leave (SL), Unpaid Sick Leave (US), Industrial Injury (II), Accident involving a third party (AC), Injury resulting from a crime of violence (CV). These categories are all included in the figures.
3. Long-term sick leave is defined as over 28 days sickness absence.
Each NHS board has a sickness absence policy in place. Sickness absence targets have been set for each NHS board and these have been integrated into the objectives of chief executives and other board members.