WORKFORCE: The north London trust saw its sickness absence rate fall to 3.61 per cent in May, lower than the Audity Commission’s average of 4.4 per cent.

A report to the trust’s board said: “This reduction coincides with the trust’s Health and Wellbeing month, closer working between the HR department and specific areas as well as more focuson all the workforce indicators at the monthly CBU Performance Meetings.

“It is coupled with an increase in the return to work rate which now sits at 69 per cent.”