Covid-19: Pandemic sickness pay rules for NHS staff to come to an end

The special arrangements that allowed full pay for NHS staff should they have to self-isolate or become ill with covid-19, however long they are off work, are being withdrawn this week, the Department of Health and Social Care has confirmed.

Temporary guidance introduced at the start of the pandemic meant that normal contractual rules were suspended and NHS staff were able to receive full pay when away from work as a result of covid, no matter the length of absence.

But from 7 July the pandemic guidance on sick pay will end, as will the pause that had been placed on covid related illness triggering absence management policies.

By 1 September 2022 all staff in …