FULL FACT - FACT CHECK.
1) Daily Mirror front page overestimates NHS unpaid overtime average.
The Daily Mirror’s front page on Monday claimed that the average NHS worker does 11 hours overtime per week. The claim is incorrect.
1) Daily Mirror front page overestimates NHS unpaid overtime average.
The Daily Mirror’s front page on Monday claimed that the average NHS worker does 11 hours overtime per week. The claim is incorrect.
2) The 2019 NHS staff survey for England suggests that the average respondent did around two hours unpaid overtime per week, but even this figure is not exact.
3) The survey asked respondents how many unpaid hours they did in excess of their contracted hours. The answer options were zero hours; up to 5 hours; 6–10 hours; and 11 or more hours.
4) Only 3% of respondents said they did 11 or more hours of unpaid work per week, but this is what the newspaper reported as the average overtime.
We can’t say exactly what the average overtime is for a few reasons.
We can’t say exactly what the average overtime is for a few reasons.
5) Firstly, we don’t know if the results are representative of NHS workers overall, and secondly, respondents didn’t give their exact overtime, but had to pick one of the answer ranges stated above. That means it’s hard to work out a true average.
6) you assume that staff typically worked the average amount of overtime within the range they selected, then the average overtime among respondents is around two hours. But it could be slightly higher or lower.
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