1. An offer to Suffolk businesses
Workplace health:
An offer to Suffolk businesses

2. An estimated 131 million days were lost due to sickness absence in the UK in 2013.
Office for National Statistics

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For an organisation employing 1,000 people this could equate to more than £126,ooo a year in lost productivity.

4. Sickness absence costs UK businesses an estimated £29bn each year, with the average worker taking over 6.5 days off each year due to sickness.
an average London firm of 250 employees loses around £250,000 a year due to ill health
Indirect and hidden costs can cause employers to spend the equivalent of about 9% of their annual costs on absence. Overall, the median cost of absence per employee was £554 in 2015
A review of academic studies shows that the return on investment for some workplace health initiatives can range from £2 for every £1 spent (1:2) to £34 for every £1 spent (1:34) .

5. Preventing absence Healthier employees are absent less often.
Benefits to your business
Preventing absence
Healthier employees are absent less often.
Healthy workers are more motivated to stay in work, recover from sickness quicker and are at less risk of long term illness.
Organisations stand to make substantial cost savings by promoting health in the workplace and reducing sickness absence.

6. improving performance
Benefits to your business
improving performance
With the number of people in England and Wales of working age falling, it’s becoming increasingly important to recruit and retain staff
By promoting good health among workers and creating a positive environment for work, you could reduce employee turnover and recruitment costs

7. Most common causes of workplace ill-health
Together mental ill health and musculoskeletal disorders made up 85% of new cases of work related ill health reported by participating GPs in the THOR-GP surveillance scheme (Great Britain) during
In 2014/15 stress accounted for 35% of all work-related ill health cases and 43% of all working days lost due to ill health. The total number of cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2014/15 was 440,000 cases: a prevalence rate of 1,380 per 100,000 workers
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders accounted for 41% of workplace ill-health cases in 2015/16, or 539,000 out of a total of 1,311,000. An estimated 8.8 million working days were lost as a result; an average of 16 days lost for each case.

8. “Those companies who still put this issue in the “too difficult” tray would do well to sit up and take note of the very real benefits they would reap from tackling the problem.”
EEF Chief Medical Adviser and Health and Safety Commissioner, Professor Sayeed Khan

9. Results of promoting a healthy workforce
Improves
Reduces
Productivity
Accidents and work-related ill health
Business performance
Sick pay costs
Staff morale
Insurance costs
Employee engagement
Pressure on employees covering for those absent

10. “Work is important not only to physical and mental health, but also for social integration. People are diminished by the experience of long-term sickness absence; loss of contact with the world of work means they lose skills and confidence in returning to work.”
Professor Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work

11. Sheffield teaching hospitals pilot (case study)
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Sheffield teaching hospitals pilot (case study)
50 staff (representative sample)
In house health check, lifestyle consultation & wellness workshops.
Focus on exercise, healthy eating and wellbeing

12. 87% reported lifestyle changes
The results
87% reported lifestyle changes
11% decreased alcohol
3% stopped smoking
71% increased exercise
Statistically significant impact – decreased cholesterol and waist circumference, increased fitness
Non significant improvement in BP and BMI

13. Return on investment £36,223 saved in sickness absence
£13,200 invested
£36,223 saved in sickness absence
Estimated …
productivity efficiency saving 7X sickness absence saving (from published literature)
that for 1000 staff the programme could save £1 million a year excluding indirect savings to NHS via reduced cost of CVD etc.

14. Tailoring the offer
Small business:
Medium business
Large business

15. Our offer*
A tailored workplace health programme delivered on-site, for free, designed to promote good health, improve productivity and reduce staff sickness absence.
Delivered by trained OneLife Suffolk specialists, already supporting other Suffolk businesses.
Targeted, discreet interventions including:
NHS health checks (40-74 year olds not on a cardiovascular disease register with their GP)
Weight management programmes
Support to quit smoking
Health walks
* For medium to large organisations of 100+ employees that employ a significant number of routine and manual workers.

16. A dedicated web portal
Free and easy to access information for businesses including:
Healthy workplace policies eg smokefree, alcohol
Individual workplace assessments eg stress assessment, workplace/desk assessment
Useful resources such as Fit for Work toolkit:
Single sign-up for further support via

17. Businesses already working with onelife Suffolk (1)
Organisation
NHS Health Checks
Mini Health MOT
Regular Bookings
HMP Hollesley Bay 6 8
Rebooked early 2017
Ipswich Building Society Head Office & Local Branch Staff 35 29
Rebooked for Health & Wellbeing Day next year
UCS Staff 15 7
Rebooked for end of 2016 and early 2016
Gressingham Food 21
Regular Bookings Bi Monthly
HMP Highpoint 5 4
Rebooked for Nov 2016 and February 2017
Babergh District Council 9 -
Monthly Booking
Ipswich Borough Council
Further Bookings 2017

18. Businesses already working with onelife Suffolk (2)
Organisation
NHS Health Checks
Mini Health MOT
Regular Bookings
Ipswich Hospital – Staff 38 1
Regular Weekly Booking
Liverpool Victoria Insurance 7 39
Further booking Dec 2017
M&H Plastics 65 20
Regular Monthly Booking
Phillips Advent 47 40
West Suffolk Hospital 19 4
MPH CEFAS 48 -
Rebooked early 2017
Sanofi – Haverhill
n/a 36
Regular Events Booking
Waveney District Council 6

19. Contact
Lynda Bradford, Head of Health Improvement (Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles)
Chris Pyburn, Public Health Manager