accruals etc for leave taken or not etc. Also it doesn't have to mean that because they work weekends they have to take 5/6 days off as they will more often than not have a rest day or 2 between a wednesday and a monday! All this needing to know now to book the holidays is just more of the usual moaning and wailing on here having a bash at Soni for not announcing anything when we are still more than a month earlier than the normal announcement date! Well my other half is also NHS staff and summer leave allocation 2013 May-August is full for her ward/department. I have no reason to make this stuff up! She has booked certain weeks off and will only get to change that if she can swap with some one else nearer the time. Plenty of other people in the same boat. CC Deville wrote: Well my other half is also NHS staff and summer leave allocation 2013 May-August is full for her ward/department. I have no reason to make this stuff up! She has booked certain weeks off and will only get to change that if she can swap with some one else nearer the time. Plenty of other people in the same boat. That is simply her departments holiday planning, it is not NHS policy and as rockgeek stated earlier it actually goes against the terms and conditions of Agenda for Change. CC Deville wrote: Regarding booking annual leave consider one