FOI 0087-2024/25- Occupational Health Services

Request:

Q1. How many times have staff (defined broadly as both police officers, police staff, and other employees) been referred to, or self-referred to, Occupational Health Services in every calendar year since 2010? 

In other words, I am looking for the number of individuals seen, helped by, or treated by Operational Health Services in each year since 2010.

Response: 

Extent and Result of Searches to Locate Information

To locate the information relevant to your request searches were conducted within North Yorkshire Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by North Yorkshire Police.

Decision

I have today decided to disclose the located information to you.

Please note, the below information is in financial years as this is how the data is collated.

Q1.  Please see the table below showing the total number of referrals made to occupational health services from 2018 to 2024, broken down by financial year.

Financal Year	Total
2018/19	901
2019/20	925
2020/21	885
2021/22	1437
2022/23	1076
2023/24	1037
Total	6261

Please note, due to recording methods changing in the timeframe requested we are only able to provide data from 2018.

Please note that systems used for recording information are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data.  It should be noted therefore that this force’s response to your questions should not be used for comparison purposes with any other responses you may receive.