Improving workplace health will give Healey Budget boost, ex-John Lewis boss says

Improving workplace health will give Healey Budget boost, ex-John Lewis boss says

Sir Charlie Mayfield, who led John Lewis from 2007 to 2020, is in charge of the Government’s Keep Britain Working review.

UK workplace health plan targets preventable exits from employment

The UK government has set out a plan for a Workplace Health System intended to help people with health conditions remain in work or return sooner after absence. It says around 300,000 people with a health condition leave work each year and estimates the cost of rising ill-health-related inactivity at about £212 billion annually.

Britain's first Workplace Health System: what employers need to know.

New workplace health standards planned to tackle long-term sickness

Around 300,000 people with health conditions leave employment each year, with employers encouraged to intervene before absence becomes prolonged.

Scotland Helps Shape New System to Keep People Healthy and in Work

Employers, health providers and disabled people in Scotland are helping develop a new Workplace Health System designed to prevent people with health conditions from unnecessarily falling out of employment. The programme comes as 265,300 people in Scotland are reported to be out of work because of long term sickness, while health related economic inactivity is estimated to cost the UK economy around £212 billion each year.

New workplace health system aims to tackle economic inactivity and boost UK growth

Keep Britain Working unveils plans for Britain's first Workplace Health System, helping employees with health conditions remain in work and driving UK economic growth through better employer support.