{"id":635735,"date":"2026-09-25T15:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635735\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:30:09","slug":"mallow-hospital-had-8-staff-absent-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/635735\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallow hospital had 8% staff absent last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Three Cork hospitals had staff absence rates well above the national average last month, new figures have shown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The HSE\u2019s target absence rate is 4% or under, but only one Cork hospital managed to achieve this in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Figures published by the health service show staff absence rates across Cork hospitals ranged from 8% at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41870556.html\"> Mallow General <\/a>to 3.8% at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH).<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The data also shows that HSE South West, which covers Cork and Kerry, had some of the highest staff absence rates in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The absence rate measures contracted hours not worked, excluding annual leave, public holidays, and maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">There was a rate of 5.8% at Cork University Hospital (CUH), 5.2% at Mercy University Hospital, 7.2% at Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH), and 7.3% at Bantry General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">CUH\u2019s rate was broadly in line with the national average, while the Mercy was slightly below it and SIVUH was significantly below it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">In contrast, Bantry General Hospital, Mallow General Hospital, and CUMH were all well above the national figure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The report also found a wide variety in absence rates among different types of staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Dental staff<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Medical and dental staff in Cork hospitals had among the lowest rates of absenteeism, which was under 2% in all six hospitals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Nursing and midwifery staff had higher rates of absences \u2014 nearly 12% in Bantry, just over 8% in Mallow and CUMH, 6% in CUH, and 4%-5% in the Mercy and SIVUH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Absence rates for management and administrative staff stood at 4.1% in SIVUH, 5.5% in the Mercy, 5.8% in CUH, 6.3% in Bantry, 7.1% in CUMH, and 10.9% in Mallow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The highest rate of absenteeism in Cork was recorded among general support staff at CUMH, where 16.5% of workers were absent. Rates ranged from under 2% at Bantry to 7.5% at CUH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Maternity leave absence is calculated separately, and was lower across the board than sick leave \u2014 2.5% in SIVUH, 3.5% in the Mercy, 3.6% in CUH, 4% in Mallow, and 6% in CUMH and Bantry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">HSE South West had the second-highest rate of both absence and maternity leave out of the six health regions in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Overall, HSE South West had a sickness absence rate of 6.6% last month, the highest recorded figure since January, when it stood at 7.3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A spokesperson for HSE South West said it had established a \u2018Supporting Attendance in the Workplace\u2019 group in February to promote employee wellbeing and support attendance across healthcare services in Cork and Kerry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Cork hospitals had staff absence rates well above the national average last month, new figures have shown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[79,103,397,396,2120,61,60],"class_list":["post-635735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cork-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hse","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}